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gtyellowjacket said:
Sure, but there are plenty of poor white people out there. And more than a few wealthy minorities. Certainly minorities are over represented in the poorer cohorts, but I think you could make an economic criteria and not run afoul of the law. Maybe I'm wrong.

Geography will probably be tougher. If you're going to all of a sudden start over representing inner cities or maybe in bizzaro land, rural areas, that could be a proxy. Probably not though unless you went to specific zip codes.

I think at one point you were working in admissions? Do you still work at a state school or private school? If so, what is Compliance's current thinking on economic or geographic criteria?
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Looking at chapel hill, it doesn't look like they use economic disadvantage and they still do overweight legacy admissions, especially for out-of-state. They don't state they use geography but I think it's a pretty open secret as less qualified students from rural counties get in before more urban counties.

They do use economically disadvantaged criteria for kids transferring in after a couple years of community college. I think that's great. I wish they would expand that to all admissions, especially at the undergraduate level.
 
Ha...to use class as an admission category it would require admitting that such a thing exists in the Made Great Again America.
 
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heelinhell said:
At UNC it's "officially" gone, but does anyone think if Mr. got rocks who has been giving thousands and thousands year after year is not going to get preferential consideration when his child applies to UNC ?
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I have posted this before-but at least 25 years ago the answer is absolutely no . I was on a work team that interviewed admissions officers all over the State Univ system . At UNC a team leader type old timer said they had done it once , one time, multimillion dollar donor. And she sounded like that was a recognized mistake
Now having spent 50 years in CH I have concluded that if your parent/grandparent is a Kenan Prof. or a Vice Chancellor-that type of thing-it helps a tad. I have zero proof either way. Just saw such kids get in always-mind you they were all damn good students and I do think CH HS's have a nice advantage-in most part no doubt because the top 25-35% of those students are pretty exceptional. Their parents are faculty or RTP Scientists etc HS reputation in success at UNC historically matters
 
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I have posted this before-but at least 25 years ago the answer is absolutely no . I was on a work team that interviewed admissions officers all over the State Univ system . At UNC a team leader type old timer said they had done it once , one time, multimillion dollar donor. And she sounded like that was a recognized mistake
Now having spent 50 years in CH I have concluded that if your parent/grandparent is a Kenan Prof. or a Vice Chancellor-that type of thing-it helps a tad. I have zero proof either way. Just saw such kids get in always-mind you they were all damn good students and I do think CH HS's have a nice advantage-in most part no doubt because the top 25-35% of those students are pretty exceptional. Their parents are faculty or RTP Scientists etc HS reputation in success at UNC historically matters
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I can also attest that one's donor history has no impact on admission to the dental school.
 
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