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Found a college professor....Great!

When I applied for the UH as a returning vet with a NY State Regents diploma and a graduation diploma from the Defense Language Institute for which I was awarded 5 points. I was enrolled, glad to be there and succeeded. But after I was there I discovered that if I was black or any other minority, I'd have been given 10 points, a female, 5 points and the points system favored anyone who could prove some disability or social status. Points....

It was the same process for grad school.....with GPA a secondary standard.

21 posted on 04/25/2009 11:00:42 PM PDT by BIGLOOK (Keelhaul Congress! It's the sensible solution to restore Command to the People.)

As familiar as I am with such outrageous things as those you’ve experienced, I still react with anger. The very idea that we should be awarded “points” based on gender, race, ethnicity, class or anything else other than ability or individual merit is so completely un-American that I fear for the future of our republic. God bless you for your military service and I hope and pray you’ll have the faith and fortitude to fight to rectify the evils that afflict our nation.