[quote=carlsbadworker]By the way, I am not saying that we shouldn’t help kids from poor family. But I just don’t see why we have to use race (out of so many other criteria that we could use) to help some of the poor kids out there.[/quote]I totally agree and we already have something like that in the book. Poor kids tends to go to bad schools. It’s much easier to be in the top 5-10% in the bad school. I forget the exact % but if you’re in the top 5-10%, you’re guarantee to 1 UC. So, they already have 1 leg up than richer kids. If you have a 3.3 or 3.5 GPA, you’re guarantee in CSU if I’m not mistaken. It’s probably easier to get that GPA in a poor performing school with lower level of competition than the better schools.
