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"The lawsuit Students For Fair Admissions v. Harvard University provided an unprecedented look at how an elite school makes admissions decisions. Using publicly

released reports, we examine the preferences Harvard gives for recruited athletes, legacies, those on the dean’s interest list, and children of faculty and staff (ALDCs). Among

white admits, over 43% are ALDC. Among admits who are African American, Asian American, and Hispanic, the share is less than 16% each. Our model of admissions

shows that roughly three quarters of white ALDC admits would have been rejected if they had been treated as white non-ALDCs."

http://public.econ.duke.edu/~psarcidi/legacyathlete.pdf[/quote]

That's what we call manipulating stats. I don't doubt it's true. But at the same time AAs and hispanics are held to wholly different admissions standards that makes it an apples and oranges comparison. I'll bet most of the AA and Hispanics would have been heavily rejected at higher numbers had they been of white or Asian heritage instead. And when one looks at the stats (scores and grades) it's pretty clear it's what happens.

What it does confirm is if you're an unhooked white applicant, it's very, very difficult to get into Harvard too.

Here's another angle of looking at it.

Currently school age kids under 18 are approximately 49% white (probably slightly less now as the 49% is from 2015). AAs are 15%, Hispanics 26% and Asians 5%.

The white and AA share of ALDCs doesn't seem markedly different from their national student demographics. Hispanics are the underrepresented ones while Asians are grossly overrepresented. One can argue for the former it's because they are still a largely newish racial demographic and it's a matter of time before it catches up. [/quote]
One could also argue that Hispanics are underrepresented because they are being systematically descriminated against.[/quote]

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