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best schools for money outside top 15 |
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Still missing the point |
| Date Posted: |
06/26/2001 |
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so then you're success is due not to having material wealth and support, but only because your parents raised you right and instilled in you the importance of education. Fine, you're absolutely right. It just goes to show that even if you grow up in the south bronx you can succeed. You don't need to grow up upper middle class.
So then, why should kids who didn't have good parents be allowed into good schools with lower grades and scores? Because when they get accepted, someone like me gets rejected, and I probably have better grades and scores than many of the black kids who are accepted. Do I, and other non-minorities have to pay the price for their parents' lack of proper guidance. Doesn't seem fair to me. Shit, no one ever pities me when they find out my parents taught me the wrong way. |
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To set the story straight, I am not saying that material wealth was not there. After my parents took turns earning their degrees ( I was in high school at the time they finished) there was plenty of money. We moved to suburban NJ.
However that is really irrellevant. The reason kids who did not have good parents and a harder life with lower scores is b/c they have to work 10x as hard just to have the oppurtunity to get in a position to take the LSAT.
First they must overcome the environmental hurdles (poverty, dangerous environment,poor school districts etc..) then they must overcome societal impediments (real story: my cousin was told by his teacher that he should be a janitor b/c he is not going to be good enough to do anything else...today he is an computer engineer)
They must go through so much more than you to reach the same level as you. Shouldn't they be compensated for the extra effort. Basic physics energy in - energy out. It is a very fair system.
But then the drama is just beginning that individual when they come out of school has to perform in an enviornment where many assume that he is hear not by the sweat of his brow but b/c he/she is a minority. He must learn to be proficient in a world run by connections...few of which he has due to the nature of his upbringing. He/she must survive in an environment where they are an even greater minority. Not an easy road at all.
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