Honestly the only thing in my life that demonstrates any of the so called “white male privileged” is when I’m pulled over while driving. I know it sounds cliche but a coworker and I used to laugh about it. He was about the same as me as far as manners, attitude and the like but yet when he got pulled over it was a…

I’m glad some like yourself see that privaledge is just an illusion. I’m honestly getting tired of being told how privaledged I am because I’m a white male. Never mind that I can’t for the life of me get a job interview more than once a month, no matter how many places I apply to or how often I call to check in. Or…

What a punch in the gut courtesy of sour grapes and privilege.

So lower income districts are less competitive? I thought (judging by this piece) rich people just buy their way into college, but now you’re telling me that the wealthier districts are actually more competitive academically. How does that work?

The root reason that people disagree over this is that there is a conflict between whether a school should admit based on objective qualifications (test scores) or some combination of objective and subjective (are you a minority? are you a legacy?) criteria. Obviously you fall into the latter camp, so it’s dissonance…

This is bizarre. You do realize that there are people who got in, of all races, with lower scores, correct? So why should she receive a message of “you did not earn it”. Because there is a POINT process that takes into account a host of other qualifications of which race is one. By your own logic her parents could…