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>The fact that you have stellar academics and went to MIT stands out well more than your name or whatever your skin color is. But his dad did use it to their a
by hospitalJail 3y ago
>The fact that you have stellar academics and went to MIT stands out well more than your name or whatever your skin color is.
But his dad did use it to their advantage. OP then gets to grow up in an upper-class city with a great school district.
Meanwhile some white or asian person gets bumped off, and instead of their kids growing up in that area, they grow up in a worse school district.
- hondo77 3y ago> Meanwhile some white or asian person gets bumped off, and instead of their kids growing up in that area, they grow up in a worse school district. Because if someone can't go to MIT, they're doomed to a life of abject poverty? Really?
- hospitalJail 3y agoDepends on what they lost on. A premed, biology grad just lost out on a 500k/yr job by not getting into medical school. OPs dad got into medical school with this discrimination, so its not a leap to imagine OP would have grown up in a lower middle class area if not for discrimination.
- hondo77 3y ago> A premed, biology grad just lost out on a 500k/yr job by not getting into medical school. Into that medical school. There are others.
- hospitalJail 3y agopedantic
- parineum 3y agoIf that were always true, AA wouldn't be needed. OPs data could have just gotten into a different school where they don't discriminate.
- brodouevencode 3y agoWhen his dad was coming through it was probably necessary. His dad capitalized on it and made seemingly good use of it by becoming a doctor.