Yes - 5jj has it right.
It means that the institution does not admit students based solely on whether they are an athlete, a child of an alumnus, if they have an influential sponsor, or if they are a member of an aggrieved ethnic group.
Victor Su, may I ask you the origin of this sentence? Where did it come from?
Thanks in advance,
John
Hi John and othersl. thank you for your answers. It comes from a passage talking about the admission of a special honor program in a university, which I was trying to translate.
Sorry I did not state my question more clearly.
I am not sure about the meaning of "being a member of a particularly aggrieved ethnic group". Can he be a rich boy who joins some kind of unique club, then becomes a "member of ...." , or should he come from a family which belongs to be a family of the aggrieved ethnic group?
Thanks.
Victor
Here are more original sentences:
A primary draw at CUNY is a programme for particularly clever students, launched in 2001. Some 1,100 of the 60,000 students at CUNY's five top schools receive a rare thing in the costly world of American colleges: free education. Those accepted by CUNY's honours programme pay no tuition fees; instead they receive a stipend of $7,500 (to help with general expenses) and a laptop computer. Applications for early admissions into next year's programme are up 70%.
Admission has nothing to do with being an athlete, or a child of an alumnus, or having an influential sponsor, or being a member of a particularly aggrieved ethnic group—criteria that are increasingly important at America's elite colleges. Most of the students who apply to the honours programme come from relatively poor families, many of them immigrant ones. All that CUNY demands is that these students be diligent and clever.