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Originally Posted by UTROD03
did you not read what he wrote? UC schools don't have affirmative action anymore. get good grades in HS, quit making excuses, and if you get in, you get in. if you don't, you don't. have you heard of the notion that admissions boards don't always just take the people with the highest scores and/or grades? this is especially true in grad school. schools don't want a bunch of egg head clowns who study 24 hrs a day and have no lives or real revelant personal experiences. they want diversity. the guy with the 1200 SAT score who's from the hood, who worked his butt off to pay for school, who had no father, etc(this isn't me. i played video games and chilled by the pools at the apartment complexes i lived at while i was in college. have you seen the girls in austin) is just as valuable to his class as the guy with a 1500 SAT score who spent his grade school years in a rich neighborhood and went to school with a bunch of richie rich mofos.
if at first you don't succeed, try, try again. you, honestly, can't possibly know the exact reason why you were passed over. you weren't there when the decision was made, and if you had any kind of inside track on getting in, i would imagine your contact would have done something to help you.
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Yes I read what he wrote. I am not applying to college today, I'm not that young. Also, who is making excuses? I stated that reverse discrimination happens and it shouldn't.
FYI on my background.........I went to high school with a lot of well to do or at least upper middle class people. My parents sacrificed a lot to send me there and I definitely felt a class separation. I caught rides to school and the bus home (I'm talking over 90 minutes on the bus). I busted countless backpacks because my books broke the shit out of the straps. My high school is arguably the best educational one in the state and certainly in the top 2. I was a 3 year letterman. My grades were pretty decent (read slightly above B average), but not stellar. Based on this I should have a pretty decent shot at the California college system, but no go. FYI every single other college I applied to I got accepted to, including one where I hand wrote the application in 5 minutes, didn't even type it (but if I was an admissions guy, I would have said no go to an idiot who handwrites an application like that ------> penmanship sucked).
It is a well known fact at the time at which I was applying that the California system was trying to get less asians especially the schools I applied to. Based on the other 100% acceptances what am I to think? I agree that colleges want more well rounded people, hell for all I know the other colleges accepted me because they didn't have enough Asians (which would really piss me off).
The issue is that you go to college to learn and affirmative action is still running rampant in the selection process. I disagree with it and it's my right, just as it's your right to want it. I have issues with people being handed things, I don't think it's right, I think you should work for what you get.