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[quote=Anonymous]Oh, please. The facts are so obvious: blacks and Latinos score significantly lower than whites and Asians, and if schools were to apply "equal standards" across the board, relatively few blacks and Latinos would make the cut. That is in opposition to liberal schools' objectives: to get a diverse student body, even though you have to "dip down" fairly low in order to capture the minority groups who score so much lower than the average white acceptee.

Take Harvard, for example, that shining bastion of liberalism and discrimination. The cut-off for consideration for blacks is an 1100 SAT score, but Asians need to score around 1350 - 1380 if you're an Asian male. Now, 1100 is decent, but it really isn't exceptional. Certainly not Ivy-League material (if you are white, Jewish, or Asian).

But prestigious institutions do have a challenge with this: if they have to lower the cut-off TOO low in order to capture the desired percentage of black students, they run the risk of tainting the academic reputation of their university. (In simpler terms, they're "dumbing down" the place, and word gets around. It also hurts the relatively few blacks who WOULD have been admitted under white or Asian standards.) So schools perform a calculation: how far down do they have to "dip" in order to get the desired percentage of blacks in under the wire? (Usually, the goal is around 12 - 14%.) The problem is that they might have to drop down even further, from the 1100 (for blacks) to, say, 1000 - and then while they are able to get the 13% they're gunning for, the idea that students with 1000 SAT scores are walking the famed halls of Harvard, well.....that might be TOO low. So they'll up the cut-off for blacks to 1100, even though that gets them only to 10%. But they figure that's a good balance: ALMOST a percentage that is equal to that in the general population, with an 1100 SAT score that is, if not exactly typical Ivy League numbers, it's still pretty good.

But what makes it even nastier is when schools like Harvard have to come up with ridiculous justification to reject Asians in favor of lower-scoring (SIGNIFICANTLY lower-scoring) blacks, and hit them with discriminatory calls such as "not a good fit" or "they don't smile or talk enough" or whatever excuse they come up with.

https://nypost.com/2018/10/17/harvards-gatekeeper-reveals-sat-cutoff-scores-based-on-race/
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