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Originally Posted by 33girl
Well, take this example. Susie and Jenny are both applying to Wawa U. Both of them have the same GPA. Susie's extracurriculars include Mu Alpha Theta, swim team, flag squad and National honor society. Jenny was in NHS, that's it. Obviously Susie is a better choice, right?
Well - what doesn't show on the application is that the average family at Susie's school makes 5 times more than the average family at Jenny's school, and Jenny's school doesn't even HAVE those first three things because the district barely has money to keep the school open.
If you get an assurance that college admissions people are going to take these things into account - that would be one thing - but I seriously doubt that is always the case.
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Well, isn't that in part of what college essays are for?
I went to a very small high school that did not have much money, and had few extracurriculars to choose from. But, I highly doubt, that at any high school, NHS would be the only available extracurricular activity. Also, there are activities to do outside of school that do not involve having money - volunteering, church youth groups, etc.
I appreciate your example and I realize that this is a problem, but I do not and will not ever believe that affirmative action is a successful solution.
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