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[quote=Anonymous]Table 6 from the paper is most illustrative -- when matched on "Academic Index", white applicants in one of these privileged categories are about comparable to black applicants with *no* connections.

Blacks with connections, of course, have the highest acceptance rate of all.

So for a white person to have the same odds of acceptance to Harvard as his comparable black peer, they have to have a parent who works at the school, or wrote a giant check.

Remember, we can only see this racial discrimination in such detail because a lawsuit forced the release of these data.

[b]Your white child with top marks is one fifth as likely to get in as his black peer - and they want this kept secret.[/b]

Simply being black provides a larger boost to your chance of Harvard admission than being a double legacy, on the Dean's list, or having family who work at the school.

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