[450] in Discussion of MIT-community interests
Re: In Defense of Affirmative Action
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Phife)
Wed May 2 02:33:42 2001
Message-Id: <200105020633.CAA08983@oedipus.mit.edu>
To: Thomas G Cadwell <tcadwell@MIT.EDU>
cc: Chris Rezek <crezek@alum.MIT.EDU>, mit-talk@MIT.EDU, aca3@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 02 May 2001 02:23:46 EDT."
<200105020623.CAA28273@jiffy-express.mit.edu>
Date: Wed, 02 May 2001 02:33:14 -0400
From: Phife <aca3@MIT.EDU>
Peep game on what Thomas G Cadwell told me:
>Is it fair for the black student who has wealthy parents, and had a
>private school education to have a benefit that an inner-city white
>kid is denied? purely because of race? Or what about someone who is some
>minute fraction hispanic or native american, and puts that as their race.
>All of these things happen with an aff action policy.
Since I have no numbers, I will not use the word "most," but note that
many schools, especially "top-tier" schools like MIT and Harvard, do
not give much or any preference to black students with wealthy
parents. Being black failed to get me into Harvard, even with high
test scores, sports, extra-currics, etc... whereas, had I been one of
my state's mediocre students with no activities to speak of, but a
father who went to Harvard, my luck would have been much different.
->p
