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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We are visiting colleges now with our DCs. According to DCUM, we should be seeing plenty of URM « black boys » on these campuses. We simply are not. But do carry on lamenting how these Black boys are stealing your white and Asian kids’ spots at Ivy schools and How life  will swing the pendulum back and will be fair again. 😏[/quote]

True.

We've been on tours of the T20 schools. Across 5-10 schools, we've seen very very few URMs and almost no black males.

Most of the people on DCUM college threads are astute. They look at Common Data Sets and know the demographic stats. [/quote]

I love how no one on here is acknowledging this.  Again, the URM kids [b]are "stealing" all the spots[/b] at these elite schools from more deserving white and asian kids, but the vast majority of the demographic on these campuses (white and Asian),  are the the ones who actually deserve to be there, correct?  How do parents know that it wasn't one of these kids who stole their child's spot?  How do they know that legacy wasn't a factor, or money, or influence, or cheating, or lying?  Nope, its those CLEARLY unqualified blacks and Hispanics.  :roll: [/quote]

No one is acknowledging this because this is not a position that people are taking. You are making up a strawman. Second, your anecdotes are meaningless against real actual data that's been published. It's undisputed fact that schools are discriminating against Asians in favor of other student demographics. [/quote]

Wrong.

https://www.harvard.edu/admissionscase/key-points/

So, you're citing Harvard as the source for your point that Harvard isn't discriminating. The school itself says it can't employ race-neutral admissions because that would undermine its diversity goals. Harvard is discriminating in lots of ways, just not in ways that are deemed illegal. I'd love for them to end legacy preferences and preferences for athletes of exclusive sports. That would support diversity AND end discrimination against non-elites.

But you can't support schools taking race into account and then question why parents think students have an edge or disadvantaged based on race.[/quote]

People cite SFFA's lawsuit as "proof" that Asians are being discriminated against. And?

People are free to read the lawsuit content and form their conclusions.

"Again, SFFA attempts to distort and mislead in its suggestions that the analysis showed discrimination or was somehow improperly stopped. As Dr. Card’s analysis shows, when all the data and information are included and analyzed, no evidence of discrimination exists."

I'll take this view.

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