MY EXPERIENCE PROVES AFFIRMATIVE ACTION IS A DISASTER: A THREAD. I am being hired at a great job using my bachelor's in mathematics. When I applied to the local state school, several people told me that I could leverage my identity matrices (deaf, first gen student, poor) 1/x

and get accepted somewhere better, because the Ivies are always desperate to improve their diversity numbers. I seriously considered doing so, but I didn't. I entered as a math major and struggled. Up at 4am to study for years, the tutoring office's best customer, crying with 2/x

relief every time I managed to get a B. It was brutally difficult, but I made it. Now I have a job that will make me an above-median American household on my own. If I had gone to an Ivy? There is no chance I'd have succeeded as a math major. My very best effort was enough at 3/x

the local state school -- at an Ivy, with classmates who took AP calculus in tenth grade, whose parents had PhDs? I'd have a degree, yes -- but in English, history, or such. I would not have a STEM degree, and I would not be entering the middle class this year. Any 4/x

school that admitted me to beef up their diversity metrics would not have been doing me a favor. They would have done me a disservice, and I am grateful that I went to a school where I was qualified and, with work, could succeed in my intended major with all its challenge. /end

The hate boner brigade has found this thread, so here you go. A school where my choice would be to drop out or switch to English or Studio Art is a path I am very grateful I did not take. Evidence: https://www.visualcapitalist.com/visualizing-salaries-college-degrees/