by 
anonymous
ANSWERS: 4
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No.
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hell no
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Ambivalent.
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This is a tough one. I'm a white Southern guy. I know (because I worked in the admissions office and saw the notes) that I got into Harvard because I went to a small Southern high school. . My grades and test scores were very good, but not perfect. I got in on the basis of geographic diversity. . Since I did very well there, and graduated, my nieces who are now applying to colleges have a leg-up at Harvard because their uncle went there. (They fall into the legacy category.) . Diversity in educational institutions is important because, as important as faculty and facilities are, you learn as much or more from the other students. . I think that racial diversity is every bit as important as every other kind. And, as someone who has to admit that I am a beneficiary of another kind of affirmative action, I can't oppose other forms of it without being a hypocrite.
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