alright so to get things straight, my father is black, so on every single financial aid form or college application i'm allowed to put down 'African American' for my race. This means that colleges are forced to look at my application as a higher priority than white and asian people. They don't really base it at all on financial situation, despite the 'financial aid' part of it. If I put down 'White' as my race on the application, I have a lower chance of being accepted with my current scores. Normally I would consider this an easy win and put down black on my apps. However...
I have an asian friend who's family earns close to 60k a year, making his family lower class. Despite this, his college advisor says he has to work twice as hard as someone like me to actually get accepted. This same bs goes for my white friends.
Affirmative action is supposed to help minorities have a future and actually get a career despite all the socioeconomic pressure on their family. Instead it just gives us minorities an unfair advantage over poorer non-minority students. What's the point of making everyone's acceptance equal if one group has to lose? its just really stupid
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