skateycat
One of Nature's Non-Spinners
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The most important outtake from this is to stop a minute and think of all the students of color who have been made to feel they’re only in the good schools because of affirmative action.
I didn't learn that people used falsely claiming a Native American tribal affiliation to get a leg up in the admission process until after I was at a University of California campus for a couple of semesters. I felt horrified and really crappy for a while, I thought maybe that being from a California Indian tribe was the only reason *I* got in. It took me a while to remember that my B+ average, my 1320 SAT (back in the olden days when it was out of 1600) and my really good essay might have had something to do with it too.