The obvious solution is to make the schools equal. Just how do you think that happens? The school “down the street” becomes the school for half your class and your elite school becomes the school for half the kids “down the street.”

Nah cheating is easy and it’s not “helping.” I know students who paid for “help” and “edits” and “rewrites” on college admissions essays.

Becky has always just meant “white girl” which is why Black folks were thoroughly confused when Beyoncé said, “Becky with the good hair.”

I can’t star this enough. When I saw that the links were from USA Today and Urban Dictionary, I spit my water out laughing.

UT has always made it extremely difficult for out-of-state students to get in regardless. He’ll have to be Ivy League caliber to consider it. On the other hand, omg he can go to College Park in state tuition?!? Bravo.

I am so over the assumption that poor schools have lower standards. My daughter went to a “progressive” “high achieving” private school in Austin for her first two years. The grades were so inflated (she would get 100- on chemistry tests) that all of the graduates got into fantastic schools. The students were all rich…

The myth of the “laid back 4.0" kid is laughable. Who the fuck is laid back and is still getting a 4.0, I don't care what school you attend.

But it’s not like this was a practice that was put into place to “reward” students in less performing schools. Black & Latino (mostly) people were fed up with the segregated schools, and the state couldn’t really justify the practice anymore so instead of diversifying the student body or having property taxes pay…

You assume that the students at less performing schools are slack asses who “coast” their way to better grades. That is simply not the case. Those top students work their asses off too. The assumption that poor students in poor schools don’t work hard is a stereotype that fuels these kinds of disagreements.

We just completed the Univ admissions process for my daughter who graduated from a TX high school. We are Black. Her grades were fabulous her first 2 yrs in private school, she then took off her junior year to focus more on her art, went back to school her senior year and graduated from a public high school with a…

This is the kind of dumb 2-dimensional thinking that American education can produce.

Give me a fucking break with this excuse. The Feds redlined neighborhoods way back and contributed to the segregation that you still see today. And their tying property taxes into school district funding is a notoriously racist practice that goes on today. IF and only if, people were really interested in equal…

Yeah it kind of makes you wonder why they wouldn’t “allow” senior year transfers to be qualified. White folks have been gaming the 10% rule for years.

SPECULATION!! Hahahaha. I have definitive proof. My daughter just graduated from a TX high school and some of her friends did exactly this. They transferred their senior year to less performing schools. That shit is mad common. Been happening FOR YEARS!

Actually this is not a case of affirmative action gone wrong, this is a case of a lazy and probably tone deaf school admins not know how to recruit students of color who could indeed handle the academic rigor you describe. It’s what happens when someone (usually white but not always) is hired to “diversify” a…

Because it’s not a great policy in practice. Like I mentioned in an earlier reply, it is common for privileged white students to leave their higher ranked school and enroll in a less performing school to get the top 10%. Also to note, a magnet school like LASA here in Austin is top ranked in the country. It has a…

Welllll in theory. It’s common practice for white folks to take their kids out of their home (or magnet) schools their junior or senior year and enroll them in less performing schools (read: overwhelming Black & Latino but not all). This way they easily get top 10% status.

Actually it was easier than that. UT also has a program where you go to a satellite campus for a year (UT Dallas, for example), and if you maintain a certain GPA, you can transfer to main campus.

WOW, by comparison, Paul Ryan is the voice of reason & sympathy.

There aren't enough stars for me to click.