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Anonymous wrote:SFFA wants the stats of all non-Asians admitted to these colleges this year? Is that the short answer?

The asian students too. All the stats for all the students. You can't really do an analysis with partial data.

With each identified by race. Also need their personal statements, mental health records, etc. Everything.

I agree about the essays, but why would the admissions committee have mental health records?

So long as they get the essays they can evaluate and compare discussions of family struggles, financial, immigration issues, medications, therapy, suicide attempts, gender dismorphia, divorces, lottery winnings, business failures, rational and irrational fears, car accidents... everything. Plus all the letters of recommendation from teachers. They will have to be identified by name and race as well. Everything

Well usually the schools have already done most of that during their own review process. You can sample the review process and see if its honest but the school's own records will provide most of what they are looking for.

No sampling!! If this is going to be done it must be done exhaustively. Otherwise the excuses will never stop.

Open up EVERYTHING. The data is there. The Common App has it all. One stop shop.

You don't get it. It's never going to stop anyway.
Affirmative action was around for 50 years.
You can expect at least 5 years of litigation to burn away the remnants of the racism that calcified in these institutions.

I thought Affirmative Action was supposed to do that? Burn away remnants of 400 years of slavery and Jim Crow etc?

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Anonymous wrote:SFFA wants the stats of all non-Asians admitted to these colleges this year? Is that the short answer?

The asian students too. All the stats for all the students. You can't really do an analysis with partial data.

With each identified by race. Also need their personal statements, mental health records, etc. Everything.

I agree about the essays, but why would the admissions committee have mental health records?

So long as they get the essays they can evaluate and compare discussions of family struggles, financial, immigration issues, medications, therapy, suicide attempts, gender dismorphia, divorces, lottery winnings, business failures, rational and irrational fears, car accidents... everything. Plus all the letters of recommendation from teachers. They will have to be identified by name and race as well. Everything

Well usually the schools have already done most of that during their own review process. You can sample the review process and see if its honest but the school's own records will provide most of what they are looking for.

No sampling!! If this is going to be done it must be done exhaustively. Otherwise the excuses will never stop.

Open up EVERYTHING. The data is there. The Common App has it all. One stop shop.

You don't get it. It's never going to stop anyway.
Affirmative action was around for 50 years.
You can expect at least 5 years of litigation to burn away the remnants of the racism that calcified in these institutions.

I thought Affirmative Action was supposed to do that? Burn away remnants of 400 years of slavery and Jim Crow etc?

Well it has improved an there are more black middle class people and representation in important fields because of it…

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Anonymous wrote:Diversity simply isn't that important for learning.

Somewhat true for certain subjects. And only true if you myopically view "learning" as confined to the classroom. Virtually all top U.S. colleges view residence halls as a place of learning too.

Does lesser learning go on at HBCUs? Are their graduates myopically crippled in America full of non-black people they have to interact with?

You do know that the diversity at HBCUs has been steadily growing over the years?

Howard is over 70% black. Is their education deficient?
Xavier is over 80% black. Are their residence halls a place of learning too?
Spelman is still over 90% black. Are their students receiving a lesser education?
Morehouse is over 98% black. Are their students receiving an inadequate education?

What makes you think that the "diversity" in a majority black school and a majority white school is qualitatively the same?

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Anonymous wrote:SFFA wants the stats of all non-Asians admitted to these colleges this year? Is that the short answer?

The asian students too. All the stats for all the students. You can't really do an analysis with partial data.

With each identified by race. Also need their personal statements, mental health records, etc. Everything.

I agree about the essays, but why would the admissions committee have mental health records?

So long as they get the essays they can evaluate and compare discussions of family struggles, financial, immigration issues, medications, therapy, suicide attempts, gender dismorphia, divorces, lottery winnings, business failures, rational and irrational fears, car accidents... everything. Plus all the letters of recommendation from teachers. They will have to be identified by name and race as well. Everything

But…colleges don’t keep this information. They assign scores to these essays and move on. Much in the same way Harvard’s case was decided by the deltas in points compared to interview scores. What organization keeps 1000s of essays just lying around?

The Common App is a massive database holding everything. Everything submitted by the student. Everything shared by the College Board. Every letter written by teachers, etc. That is where SFFA will have to go to get it all. Nothing ever gets deleted from the internet. So if there is something sensitive in an applicants essays or in a letter-of-recommendation it will be exposed during discovery.

https://www.commonapp.org/counselors-and-recommenders/recommender-guide

Seems like a security concern. I don’t think anyone should be applying to a system that up and forfeits their info to a bunch of randoms obsessed with race.

Yes, I would have huge issues with this. I feel like Asians are trying to turn our college system into what exists in China or India. I don’t want that.

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Anonymous wrote:SFFA wants the stats of all non-Asians admitted to these colleges this year? Is that the short answer?

The asian students too. All the stats for all the students. You can't really do an analysis with partial data.

With each identified by race. Also need their personal statements, mental health records, etc. Everything.

I agree about the essays, but why would the admissions committee have mental health records?

So long as they get the essays they can evaluate and compare discussions of family struggles, financial, immigration issues, medications, therapy, suicide attempts, gender dismorphia, divorces, lottery winnings, business failures, rational and irrational fears, car accidents... everything. Plus all the letters of recommendation from teachers. They will have to be identified by name and race as well. Everything

But…colleges don’t keep this information. They assign scores to these essays and move on. Much in the same way Harvard’s case was decided by the deltas in points compared to interview scores. What organization keeps 1000s of essays just lying around?

The Common App is a massive database holding everything. Everything submitted by the student. Everything shared by the College Board. Every letter written by teachers, etc. That is where SFFA will have to go to get it all. Nothing ever gets deleted from the internet. So if there is something sensitive in an applicants essays or in a letter-of-recommendation it will be exposed during discovery.

https://www.commonapp.org/counselors-and-recommenders/recommender-guide

Seems like a security concern. I don’t think anyone should be applying to a system that up and forfeits their info to a bunch of randoms obsessed with race.

Yes, I would have huge issues with this. I feel like Asians are trying to turn our college system into what exists in China or India. I don’t want that.

You mean return it to a better, new improved version of what it used to be when only white men went to college? Only that the same opportunity exists now for everyone equally as long as you have the academic stats to qualify.

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Anonymous wrote:SFFA wants the stats of all non-Asians admitted to these colleges this year? Is that the short answer?

The asian students too. All the stats for all the students. You can't really do an analysis with partial data.

With each identified by race. Also need their personal statements, mental health records, etc. Everything.

I agree about the essays, but why would the admissions committee have mental health records?

So long as they get the essays they can evaluate and compare discussions of family struggles, financial, immigration issues, medications, therapy, suicide attempts, gender dismorphia, divorces, lottery winnings, business failures, rational and irrational fears, car accidents... everything. Plus all the letters of recommendation from teachers. They will have to be identified by name and race as well. Everything

But…colleges don’t keep this information. They assign scores to these essays and move on. Much in the same way Harvard’s case was decided by the deltas in points compared to interview scores. What organization keeps 1000s of essays just lying around?

It's in electronic format. They keep it around for at least the 4 years the kid is at the school

Your kids college keeps essays? Really? They may be the most transparent college in the country, because most just have admission score values and redact everything else. Where does your child go?

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Anonymous wrote:SFFA wants the stats of all non-Asians admitted to these colleges this year? Is that the short answer?

The asian students too. All the stats for all the students. You can't really do an analysis with partial data.

With each identified by race. Also need their personal statements, mental health records, etc. Everything.

I agree about the essays, but why would the admissions committee have mental health records?

So long as they get the essays they can evaluate and compare discussions of family struggles, financial, immigration issues, medications, therapy, suicide attempts, gender dismorphia, divorces, lottery winnings, business failures, rational and irrational fears, car accidents... everything. Plus all the letters of recommendation from teachers. They will have to be identified by name and race as well. Everything

But…colleges don’t keep this information. They assign scores to these essays and move on. Much in the same way Harvard’s case was decided by the deltas in points compared to interview scores. What organization keeps 1000s of essays just lying around?

The Common App is a massive database holding everything. Everything submitted by the student. Everything shared by the College Board. Every letter written by teachers, etc. That is where SFFA will have to go to get it all. Nothing ever gets deleted from the internet. So if there is something sensitive in an applicants essays or in a letter-of-recommendation it will be exposed during discovery.

https://www.commonapp.org/counselors-and-recommenders/recommender-guide

Seems like a security concern. I don’t think anyone should be applying to a system that up and forfeits their info to a bunch of randoms obsessed with race.

Yes, I would have huge issues with this. I feel like Asians are trying to turn our college system into what exists in China or India. I don’t want that.

You mean return it to a better, new improved version of what it used to be when only white men went to college? Only that the same opportunity exists now for everyone equally as long as you have the academic stats to qualify.

Yep. The good old days. Back when admissions criteria used to be “who’s your father” and “translate this sentence in Greek.” Definitely useful for modern admissions.

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Anonymous wrote:SFFA wants the stats of all non-Asians admitted to these colleges this year? Is that the short answer?

The asian students too. All the stats for all the students. You can't really do an analysis with partial data.

With each identified by race. Also need their personal statements, mental health records, etc. Everything.

I agree about the essays, but why would the admissions committee have mental health records?

So long as they get the essays they can evaluate and compare discussions of family struggles, financial, immigration issues, medications, therapy, suicide attempts, gender dismorphia, divorces, lottery winnings, business failures, rational and irrational fears, car accidents... everything. Plus all the letters of recommendation from teachers. They will have to be identified by name and race as well. Everything

But…colleges don’t keep this information. They assign scores to these essays and move on. Much in the same way Harvard’s case was decided by the deltas in points compared to interview scores. What organization keeps 1000s of essays just lying around?

The Common App is a massive database holding everything. Everything submitted by the student. Everything shared by the College Board. Every letter written by teachers, etc. That is where SFFA will have to go to get it all. Nothing ever gets deleted from the internet. So if there is something sensitive in an applicants essays or in a letter-of-recommendation it will be exposed during discovery.

https://www.commonapp.org/counselors-and-recommenders/recommender-guide

Seems like a security concern. I don’t think anyone should be applying to a system that up and forfeits their info to a bunch of randoms obsessed with race.

Yes, I would have huge issues with this. I feel like Asians are trying to turn our college system into what exists in China or India. I don’t want that.

or UK, Germany, France etc. pretty much rest of the world that has more clear and fair rules and standards

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Anonymous wrote:SFFA wants the stats of all non-Asians admitted to these colleges this year? Is that the short answer?

The asian students too. All the stats for all the students. You can't really do an analysis with partial data.

With each identified by race. Also need their personal statements, mental health records, etc. Everything.

I agree about the essays, but why would the admissions committee have mental health records?

So long as they get the essays they can evaluate and compare discussions of family struggles, financial, immigration issues, medications, therapy, suicide attempts, gender dismorphia, divorces, lottery winnings, business failures, rational and irrational fears, car accidents... everything. Plus all the letters of recommendation from teachers. They will have to be identified by name and race as well. Everything

But…colleges don’t keep this information. They assign scores to these essays and move on. Much in the same way Harvard’s case was decided by the deltas in points compared to interview scores. What organization keeps 1000s of essays just lying around?

The Common App is a massive database holding everything. Everything submitted by the student. Everything shared by the College Board. Every letter written by teachers, etc. That is where SFFA will have to go to get it all. Nothing ever gets deleted from the internet. So if there is something sensitive in an applicants essays or in a letter-of-recommendation it will be exposed during discovery.

https://www.commonapp.org/counselors-and-recommenders/recommender-guide

Seems like a security concern. I don’t think anyone should be applying to a system that up and forfeits their info to a bunch of randoms obsessed with race.

Yes, I would have huge issues with this. I feel like Asians are trying to turn our college system into what exists in China or India. I don’t want that.

or UK, Germany, France etc. pretty much rest of the world that has more clear and fair rules and standards

Then I wonder why people from all over the world still come to the US for college and why a US college education continues to be considered so valuable.

The thing is, outside a handful of highly competitive schools in the US, admissions ARE very compliant and largely based on GPA and test scores. It's just at a small number of private, highly selective colleges, the process is opaque because they have way more people with sufficiently high quantitative metrics than they have spots. So they use a qualitative approach that is necessarily squishy and places a high value on metrics like "fit" and "class balance" and "character."

And what some of you who are enraged about this don't understand is that these qualitative metrics lead to desirable learning environments for many people, and if admissions was purely based on test scores, many people would value it less.

Why do you think that is?

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Anonymous wrote:SFFA wants the stats of all non-Asians admitted to these colleges this year? Is that the short answer?

The asian students too. All the stats for all the students. You can't really do an analysis with partial data.

With each identified by race. Also need their personal statements, mental health records, etc. Everything.

I agree about the essays, but why would the admissions committee have mental health records?

So long as they get the essays they can evaluate and compare discussions of family struggles, financial, immigration issues, medications, therapy, suicide attempts, gender dismorphia, divorces, lottery winnings, business failures, rational and irrational fears, car accidents... everything. Plus all the letters of recommendation from teachers. They will have to be identified by name and race as well. Everything

But…colleges don’t keep this information. They assign scores to these essays and move on. Much in the same way Harvard’s case was decided by the deltas in points compared to interview scores. What organization keeps 1000s of essays just lying around?

The Common App is a massive database holding everything. Everything submitted by the student. Everything shared by the College Board. Every letter written by teachers, etc. That is where SFFA will have to go to get it all. Nothing ever gets deleted from the internet. So if there is something sensitive in an applicants essays or in a letter-of-recommendation it will be exposed during discovery.

https://www.commonapp.org/counselors-and-recommenders/recommender-guide

Seems like a security concern. I don’t think anyone should be applying to a system that up and forfeits their info to a bunch of randoms obsessed with race.

Yes, I would have huge issues with this. I feel like Asians are trying to turn our college system into what exists in China or India. I don’t want that.

You want free handout system. Very un-American.

America is for fair competition.

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Anonymous wrote:SFFA wants the stats of all non-Asians admitted to these colleges this year? Is that the short answer?

The asian students too. All the stats for all the students. You can't really do an analysis with partial data.

With each identified by race. Also need their personal statements, mental health records, etc. Everything.

I agree about the essays, but why would the admissions committee have mental health records?

So long as they get the essays they can evaluate and compare discussions of family struggles, financial, immigration issues, medications, therapy, suicide attempts, gender dismorphia, divorces, lottery winnings, business failures, rational and irrational fears, car accidents... everything. Plus all the letters of recommendation from teachers. They will have to be identified by name and race as well. Everything

But…colleges don’t keep this information. They assign scores to these essays and move on. Much in the same way Harvard’s case was decided by the deltas in points compared to interview scores. What organization keeps 1000s of essays just lying around?

The Common App is a massive database holding everything. Everything submitted by the student. Everything shared by the College Board. Every letter written by teachers, etc. That is where SFFA will have to go to get it all. Nothing ever gets deleted from the internet. So if there is something sensitive in an applicants essays or in a letter-of-recommendation it will be exposed during discovery.

https://www.commonapp.org/counselors-and-recommenders/recommender-guide

Seems like a security concern. I don’t think anyone should be applying to a system that up and forfeits their info to a bunch of randoms obsessed with race.

Yes, I would have huge issues with this. I feel like Asians are trying to turn our college system into what exists in China or India. I don’t want that.

or UK, Germany, France etc. pretty much rest of the world that has more clear and fair rules and standards

Then I wonder why people from all over the world still come to the US for college and why a US college education continues to be considered so valuable.

The thing is, outside a handful of highly competitive schools in the US, admissions ARE very compliant and largely based on GPA and test scores. It's just at a small number of private, highly selective colleges, the process is opaque because they have way more people with sufficiently high quantitative metrics than they have spots. So they use a qualitative approach that is necessarily squishy and places a high value on metrics like "fit" and "class balance" and "character."

And what some of you who are enraged about this don't understand is that these qualitative metrics lead to desirable learning environments for many people, and if admissions was purely based on test scores, many people would value it less.

Why do you think that is?

This ^^^

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Anonymous wrote:SFFA wants the stats of all non-Asians admitted to these colleges this year? Is that the short answer?

The asian students too. All the stats for all the students. You can't really do an analysis with partial data.

With each identified by race. Also need their personal statements, mental health records, etc. Everything.

I agree about the essays, but why would the admissions committee have mental health records?

So long as they get the essays they can evaluate and compare discussions of family struggles, financial, immigration issues, medications, therapy, suicide attempts, gender dismorphia, divorces, lottery winnings, business failures, rational and irrational fears, car accidents... everything. Plus all the letters of recommendation from teachers. They will have to be identified by name and race as well. Everything

But…colleges don’t keep this information. They assign scores to these essays and move on. Much in the same way Harvard’s case was decided by the deltas in points compared to interview scores. What organization keeps 1000s of essays just lying around?

The Common App is a massive database holding everything. Everything submitted by the student. Everything shared by the College Board. Every letter written by teachers, etc. That is where SFFA will have to go to get it all. Nothing ever gets deleted from the internet. So if there is something sensitive in an applicants essays or in a letter-of-recommendation it will be exposed during discovery.

https://www.commonapp.org/counselors-and-recommenders/recommender-guide

Seems like a security concern. I don’t think anyone should be applying to a system that up and forfeits their info to a bunch of randoms obsessed with race.

Yes, I would have huge issues with this. I feel like Asians are trying to turn our college system into what exists in China or India. I don’t want that.

or UK, Germany, France etc. pretty much rest of the world that has more clear and fair rules and standards

Then I wonder why people from all over the world still come to the US for college and why a US college education continues to be considered so valuable.

The thing is, outside a handful of highly competitive schools in the US, admissions ARE very compliant and largely based on GPA and test scores. It's just at a small number of private, highly selective colleges, the process is opaque because they have way more people with sufficiently high quantitative metrics than they have spots. So they use a qualitative approach that is necessarily squishy and places a high value on metrics like "fit" and "class balance" and "character."

And what some of you who are enraged about this don't understand is that these qualitative metrics lead to desirable learning environments for many people, and if admissions was purely based on test scores, many people would value it less.

Why do you think that is?

Bingo. It really is what makes our institutions so great and there is a place for everyone. We turn out leaders and innovators and quirky people and LARPers and that strange girl who helped you at the resource desk who now heads a library. Don't tell me we just look at their test scores. I love that we look at the whole person and try to diversify (not by skin color) the whole college experience.

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Anonymous wrote:SFFA wants the stats of all non-Asians admitted to these colleges this year? Is that the short answer?

The asian students too. All the stats for all the students. You can't really do an analysis with partial data.

With each identified by race. Also need their personal statements, mental health records, etc. Everything.

I agree about the essays, but why would the admissions committee have mental health records?

So long as they get the essays they can evaluate and compare discussions of family struggles, financial, immigration issues, medications, therapy, suicide attempts, gender dismorphia, divorces, lottery winnings, business failures, rational and irrational fears, car accidents... everything. Plus all the letters of recommendation from teachers. They will have to be identified by name and race as well. Everything

But…colleges don’t keep this information. They assign scores to these essays and move on. Much in the same way Harvard’s case was decided by the deltas in points compared to interview scores. What organization keeps 1000s of essays just lying around?

The Common App is a massive database holding everything. Everything submitted by the student. Everything shared by the College Board. Every letter written by teachers, etc. That is where SFFA will have to go to get it all. Nothing ever gets deleted from the internet. So if there is something sensitive in an applicants essays or in a letter-of-recommendation it will be exposed during discovery.

https://www.commonapp.org/counselors-and-recommenders/recommender-guide

Seems like a security concern. I don’t think anyone should be applying to a system that up and forfeits their info to a bunch of randoms obsessed with race.

Yes, I would have huge issues with this. I feel like Asians are trying to turn our college system into what exists in China or India. I don’t want that.

or UK, Germany, France etc. pretty much rest of the world that has more clear and fair rules and standards

Then I wonder why people from all over the world still come to the US for college and why a US college education continues to be considered so valuable.

The thing is, outside a handful of highly competitive schools in the US, admissions ARE very compliant and largely based on GPA and test scores. It's just at a small number of private, highly selective colleges, the process is opaque because they have way more people with sufficiently high quantitative metrics than they have spots. So they use a qualitative approach that is necessarily squishy and places a high value on metrics like "fit" and "class balance" and "character."

And what some of you who are enraged about this don't understand is that these qualitative metrics lead to desirable learning environments for many people, and if admissions was purely based on test scores, many people would value it less.

Why do you think that is?

Until around WWII, US colleges were regarded as 2nd 3rd tier schools. People from all over the world went to Europe.
Real talents form US who want to really study and research further went to schools in UK, Germany, France.
It a combination of many factors and the economical, political, cultural power of the country play big roles.

Again, nobody really says anything like 'purely based on test scores.'
There has been clearly a discriminatory practice that they required much higher standards from Asians.
This cannot be tolerated, and the US Supreme Court ruled it.
Now you get it?

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Anonymous wrote:SFFA wants the stats of all non-Asians admitted to these colleges this year? Is that the short answer?

The asian students too. All the stats for all the students. You can't really do an analysis with partial data.

With each identified by race. Also need their personal statements, mental health records, etc. Everything.

I agree about the essays, but why would the admissions committee have mental health records?

So long as they get the essays they can evaluate and compare discussions of family struggles, financial, immigration issues, medications, therapy, suicide attempts, gender dismorphia, divorces, lottery winnings, business failures, rational and irrational fears, car accidents... everything. Plus all the letters of recommendation from teachers. They will have to be identified by name and race as well. Everything

But…colleges don’t keep this information. They assign scores to these essays and move on. Much in the same way Harvard’s case was decided by the deltas in points compared to interview scores. What organization keeps 1000s of essays just lying around?

The Common App is a massive database holding everything. Everything submitted by the student. Everything shared by the College Board. Every letter written by teachers, etc. That is where SFFA will have to go to get it all. Nothing ever gets deleted from the internet. So if there is something sensitive in an applicants essays or in a letter-of-recommendation it will be exposed during discovery.

https://www.commonapp.org/counselors-and-recommenders/recommender-guide

Seems like a security concern. I don’t think anyone should be applying to a system that up and forfeits their info to a bunch of randoms obsessed with race.

Yes, I would have huge issues with this. I feel like Asians are trying to turn our college system into what exists in China or India. I don’t want that.

or UK, Germany, France etc. pretty much rest of the world that has more clear and fair rules and standards

Then I wonder why people from all over the world still come to the US for college and why a US college education continues to be considered so valuable.

The thing is, outside a handful of highly competitive schools in the US, admissions ARE very compliant and largely based on GPA and test scores. It's just at a small number of private, highly selective colleges, the process is opaque because they have way more people with sufficiently high quantitative metrics than they have spots. So they use a qualitative approach that is necessarily squishy and places a high value on metrics like "fit" and "class balance" and "character."

And what some of you who are enraged about this don't understand is that these qualitative metrics lead to desirable learning environments for many people, and if admissions was purely based on test scores, many people would value it less.

Why do you think that is?

Until around WWII, US colleges were regarded as 2nd 3rd tier schools. People from all over the world went to Europe.
Real talents form US who want to really study and research further went to schools in UK, Germany, France.
It a combination of many factors and the economical, political, cultural power of the country play big roles.

Again, nobody really says anything like 'purely based on test scores.'
There has been clearly a discriminatory practice that they required much higher standards from Asians.
This cannot be tolerated, and the US Supreme Court ruled it.
Now you get it?

Get what? Your thoughts are scattered and your lead in paragraph about European universities in the early part of the 20th century has nothing to do with your conclusion about Asians.

Hopefully you are able to communicate better in your native tongue. You post a ton and most of your posts are disjointed with lots of broken English.

Let’s see how long it takes you to post a rebuttal in similarly poor English while you will attempt to tie together a bunch of random thoughts in a poorly constructed argument.

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Anonymous wrote:SFFA wants the stats of all non-Asians admitted to these colleges this year? Is that the short answer?

The asian students too. All the stats for all the students. You can't really do an analysis with partial data.

With each identified by race. Also need their personal statements, mental health records, etc. Everything.

I agree about the essays, but why would the admissions committee have mental health records?

So long as they get the essays they can evaluate and compare discussions of family struggles, financial, immigration issues, medications, therapy, suicide attempts, gender dismorphia, divorces, lottery winnings, business failures, rational and irrational fears, car accidents... everything. Plus all the letters of recommendation from teachers. They will have to be identified by name and race as well. Everything

But…colleges don’t keep this information. They assign scores to these essays and move on. Much in the same way Harvard’s case was decided by the deltas in points compared to interview scores. What organization keeps 1000s of essays just lying around?

The Common App is a massive database holding everything. Everything submitted by the student. Everything shared by the College Board. Every letter written by teachers, etc. That is where SFFA will have to go to get it all. Nothing ever gets deleted from the internet. So if there is something sensitive in an applicants essays or in a letter-of-recommendation it will be exposed during discovery.

https://www.commonapp.org/counselors-and-recommenders/recommender-guide

Seems like a security concern. I don’t think anyone should be applying to a system that up and forfeits their info to a bunch of randoms obsessed with race.

Yes, I would have huge issues with this. I feel like Asians are trying to turn our college system into what exists in China or India. I don’t want that.

or UK, Germany, France etc. pretty much rest of the world that has more clear and fair rules and standards

Then I wonder why people from all over the world still come to the US for college and why a US college education continues to be considered so valuable.

The thing is, outside a handful of highly competitive schools in the US, admissions ARE very compliant and largely based on GPA and test scores. It's just at a small number of private, highly selective colleges, the process is opaque because they have way more people with sufficiently high quantitative metrics than they have spots. So they use a qualitative approach that is necessarily squishy and places a high value on metrics like "fit" and "class balance" and "character."

And what some of you who are enraged about this don't understand is that these qualitative metrics lead to desirable learning environments for many people, and if admissions was purely based on test scores, many people would value it less.

Why do you think that is?

Until around WWII, US colleges were regarded as 2nd 3rd tier schools. People from all over the world went to Europe.
Real talents form US who want to really study and research further went to schools in UK, Germany, France.
It a combination of many factors and the economical, political, cultural power of the country play big roles.

Again, nobody really says anything like 'purely based on test scores.'
There has been clearly a discriminatory practice that they required much higher standards from Asians.
This cannot be tolerated, and the US Supreme Court ruled it.
Now you get it?

Get what? Your thoughts are scattered and your lead in paragraph about European universities in the early part of the 20th century has nothing to do with your conclusion about Asians.

Hopefully you are able to communicate better in your native tongue. You post a ton and most of your posts are disjointed with lots of broken English.

Let’s see how long it takes you to post a rebuttal in similarly poor English while you will attempt to tie together a bunch of random thoughts in a poorly constructed argument.

Why are you so mad LOL