re: Vandy rape case: Juror on trial failed to disclose rape from 20 years ago

I don't think you understand how major college admission works.



Take Harvard Law as an example. Having a 4.0 GPA and a 180 LSAT doesn't automatically guarantee you admission. It's about the other things you do and about who you know. The single most important factor in getting in is who your parents are.


It's much the same at MIT. There are enough applicants that they get to pick what they want. Compensation packages vary depending on how much they want you.




Do you just assume that every white person in a major school is there because his parents are rich and every non-white person is in a major school because they are non-white?


I think you overestimate the amount of students that get into these colleges based on purely academic merits




Students with superb academics are recruited by colleges. They get letters, phone calls and other perks. It's not much different from athletic recruiting, except the cash offers aren't under the table they're above it in the form of grants. If you're not being recruited by a college then you're going to get in based on "other criteria" Those criteria are typically the network of people you know and can support you.. and thus we have affirmative action, which was created to provide access to groups of people (the main group helped by AA is WOMEN) who don't have access to those same networks. Those networks are typically referred to as Good 'Ole Boy Networks.

Using your example, you might even make a comment about how Obama, who you feel wasn't even qualified to go to Harvard, finished near the top of his class