Most people won't qualify for this.

I've seen a lot of bad parents in my life, but this really takes the cake.

Not to mention the fact most people there are bilingual.

Did I miss something, why won't they fill out the FAFSA? It's literally free money and costs them nothing but a few minutes off their time. This is beyond insane.

It has nothing to do with the Koch bothers.. also there is only one now because the other died.

We've gotten to a point in our society where people see their political alignment as central to their identity. Having to question their political beliefs is as extremely painful to these people.

You're wasting your time with these people. They don't actually care about the facts, they're just here to push political propaganda.

The reason is very obvious, but we're not supposed to talk about it on Reddit.

Because basically everything can kill you in a large enough dose. You really can't get too worked up about thus kind of thing, especially those idiotic California Prop 65 warnings that are literally everywhere these days.

Wish we sad some more of those people around here so I could actually use the subway without having to step over homeless people and fear for my life.

And the lack of pipeline capacity due to Keystone XL being canceled.

Oh, absolutely it's from my lived experience seeing why people vote the way they do. Obviously the data only shows the correlation, not the causation.

The explanation is obvious: people who observe their tax money being constantly wasted on lazy people and criminals are more likely to become Conservative. It's a lot easier to have egalitarian views when you're not constantly faced with the system getting abused.

Make affirmative action about socioeconomic status instead of skin color then. The moral problem here is that you can't fix the past. You're punishing people who didn't have anything to do with the injustices of the past. That's doubly true for Asians whose ancestors were often ALSO victims of colonialism.

>Keeping in mind that URM are systemically more likely to be in poorer schools with fewer resources

And the solution should be to provide those schools with more resources.

Also, AA might make sense if it were based on socioeconomic status, but it's NOT. It's based purely on race. Poor Asians still get discriminated against and rich black people still get the benefits.

WAY to many people don't understand this. The reality is that unless you're rich the better the college you go to the LESS you will actually pay. Too many people get scared by the "sticker price", but that's mostly to fleece international students.

The US training foreign elites is how we export our culture to the rest of the world. It's very intentional.

I just honestly can't wrap my head around how a person could logically think the solution to racism is... more racism. This world is so fucked with that sort of logic.

This account is just a propaganda bot. Look at its lost history, this is literally all it does!

I think top colleges should admit the most qualified students. Lowering the standards of our top academic institutions isn't the solution to poor parenting and school funding. State colleges are perfectly fine institutions of higher learning and a person attending one has plenty of opportunity to succeed in life. A Harvard education isn't required to get ahead for an intelligent and motivated individual. If politicians want to do something to help poor people get more educated they should change the way schools are funded since the current model of using local property taxes is manifestly unfair. The reality is that by the time a person is 18 its already too late to make up for a learning deficit acquired early in life.

"Asian" is a poor way to lump together dozens of different ethnicities. It's obviously not true that they all value the same things, however in general there's no doubt Asian culture is more focused on education.

The "problem" is simply that the kids of the rich are legitimately the smartest kids. There's a considerable "nurture" component to intelligence and higher income kids receive it more than poor kids do. By the time they're 17 kids from high income families are just factually more intelligent and well rounded individuals. And that's not to mention any genetic intelligence advantage they may receive.

PS: While rich kids are nurtured better than poor ones I'd argue it's certainly possible for poor parents to provide a good head start to their kids. We see that even poor Asian kids greatly overperform on academic metrics because their parents stress it a lot at home and focus what resources they have primarily on education.

The whole point of standardized testing is to provide a way for smart kids from poor backgrounds to compete with the kids of the wealthy.

Your conclusion is completely unsupported by fact. First off, what we see here is a massive advantage for black and Hispanic individuals. Your argument would therefore suggesr these individuals to be higher income than Asian and white families. That is simply false. Secondly, admission to these schools is completely need blind and they offer extremely good financial aid packages. If your family is low income you will go for free.

The SAT is actually one of the most predictive metrics of future success we have.