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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m not necessarily against AA but I can’t abide the dishonesty of those claiming that black admits don’t have substantially lower quantitative metrics than other races.  Granting black admits handicaps is at the very heart of AA.

Here are 18 years of Harvard data tracking test scores of admits by race.  Blacks scored the lowest of the five racial groups.

https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2018/10/22/asian-american-admit-sat-scores/[/quote]

This is a good link. Thanks for posting.

But it proves the point that I was personally making. Black students had average SAT section score of 704. Average white student had score of 745. These correspond to percentiles 92-96% and 95-99%, respectively. Yes, the black students were lower. But these scores are all exceptional. This is not a so-so black kid with a 3.3 GPA and a white kid with a 3.8 GPA that other posters keep using as a made up example. This is a black kid and a white kid, both with 4.0 GPAs in AP classes and both with really strong SAT scores, with the white person being slightly higher. This is exactly the point I have been making all along (but I can't speak for other posters).

[url]https://blog.prepscholar.com/sat-percentiles-and-score-rankings[/url]

There is definitely room to debate if 2-3% percentile points are significant. But consider the full implications of asking for a race-blind admissions.

[url]https://college.harvard.edu/admissions/admissions-statistics[/url]

Harvard had 43,330 applicants this year and admitted 2000. Harvard, if it so chose, could entirely populate its freshman class with wildly "superior" Asian students. I'm guessing you wouldn't like that. But on what grounds? FYI, huge percentage of white acceptances are due to social reasons, not merit.
[url]https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/study-harvard-finds-43-percent-white-students-are-legacy-athletes-n1060361[/url]

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