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[quote=Anonymous]I saw this on a College Confidential thread, Pomona's profile for admitted students of this year: https://www.pomona.edu/news/2017/03/17-pomona-college-receives-record-breaking-number-applications-class-2021 It certainly is impressive- 40% valedictorian or salutatorian, 2200 median SAT, 33 ACT, but I found one statistic particularly harrowing:

Only 32% of admitted students are domestic white students. More than 56% are domestic students of color, and an additional 11.4% international students. The U.S. census reports that 63% of U.S. residents were non-Hispanic white, and I'd be extremely surprised if the % of white applicants was much lower than that. Pomona is an elite LAC as well that draws applications from boarding schools, which are even more white than the US census.

This clearly means that AA and the like are happening at schools like Pomona to the extent where white applicants are getting rejected in favor of students of color. See that 8.2% admit rate? It's 4.1% for white students. Don't waste your application if you're a white candidate. [/quote]

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