Does affirmative action help blacks who are not underprivildged?
I am black and my parents are fairly wealthy, will AA still help me even though I have had more opportunity than many white kids.
Household income over 200k.
Does AA still help me in college admissions or would it only benefit me if I was poor and black?
...I was just wondering, don't really know exactly how AA works.
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Yes as a rule AA will help you. It is not based on how much you make or your parents make but on what color your skin is. That is why so many people do not like affirmative action. It also means that if a white guy and a black guy with the same qualifications apply for the same job the black one has a better chance of getting it. Once again you see why it is such a touchy subject. At one point in time in this country it was a great thing and I am glad it was done. I do think that it has outlived its usefulness though in the form it is in. The whole idea needs to be redone.
Yes. It looks at aspects of social identity. However, I'm assuming your parents are also college grads, their legacy will also help get you into college.
Yes they will help you because you are black. I guess not enough black people go to college so even though you have some money they will still help you.
I am white and I am a minority in the world population !! Where is the AA for me???
AFFIRMATIVE ACTION IS JUST FOR LAZY ASSSS BLACK PEOPLE THAT WANT SOMETHING FOR NOTHING. PUT THEM WITH THE FREE LOADER MEXICANS.
It benefits every black. It's wrong and I am 1000% against it - you shouldn't given ANYTHING just for the color of your skin, but hey, thank the liberals and enjoy it.
AA is a program which weighs the available race factors in a certain area. If there is a low percentage of a minority in a job, the applications favor more the minority than the majority applicants, regardless of the financial statusfor equality.
yes it will help you.
a simple explanation of AA, is that if their are 2 equally qualified candidates for college admission, race can be a deciding factor.
a college may need to maintain a certain percentage of minority students in order to keep their federal funding.
If you are wealthy and had "more opportunity than many white kids", you then obviously had the opportunity to make the grades most white kids didn't get the chance to make, since they probably lived in areas where dodging bullets was so much more important than education.
You shouldn't have to rely on special programs, or even need them, if you have good grades.
The purpose of AA wasn't suppose to get kids in because they were poor and black, but because many came from areas much like I described above. If you make good grades, that in itself should be enough to get in.
Of course it depends on where you want to go. If your grades suck, I can guarantee you AA won't get you into Hardvard unless you really have done well on the admittance essay and have had a great school record.
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