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Sounds like it's based on race to me...

Dang straight. Excuse the frank language folks, but getting into college is supposed to be about your brain, and the last time I helped my wife study for Anatomy, I didn't notice a penis, a vagina or any melanin-producing cells anywhere inside the skull.

"My reaction was disgust because of the ignorance of some SMU students,"

hey that's funny, that's my reaction, too! and for the same reason!

i know from personal experience that affirmative action is awful in practice. i was a freshman at penn state the first year after the state required mandatory minimum minority enrollment. there were people in my classes that were barely literate. it was the most boring, mind-numbing, waste of time and my parents' money. i sat in classes that resembled 4th grade. it was that bad. there were students there that had only gotten a 400 COMBINED score on the SAT. for those of you unfamiliar with that test, that is what they GIVE you for SIGNING YOUR NAME. on top of the fact that my education was dumbed down, the majority of these illiterates were receiving their "education" for free via state funded grants. therefore, my parents were paying for me and them so that i could learn at the 4th grade level all over again.

as a woman, i do not want any job or to be a student anywhere that has hired/selected me because i am a woman and so they "have" to choose me.

affirmative action is BAD for minorities. it is harmful to self-esteem, it creates warped realities, it hinders our educational system, our workforce, and our economy.

when we have entire segments of the population knowing that they can get by with only 50-70% of effort, that is all they will produce. furthermore, they will then BELIEVE that they are only capable of that 50-70%. which is a bad, bad thing.