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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This stuff about the UCs placing more emphasis on grades/SATs is pure garbage. UC administrators are among the people that chafe the most at Prop 209's limitations. There are literally hundreds of articles you can find online written by disgruntled UC administrators. They have openly tried to find ways to increase their URM admissions for almost two decades, including scraping the legacy system and creating outreach programs available only to blacks and hispanics. If anything, they have been trying to de-emphasize GPA/SATs. I remember a little while back, there were proposals to completely eliminate the SAT as a component of admission to certain UC schools. [/quote]

+1. The stuff about all (or most) applicants to Ivies being equally qualified (as far as it relates to numeric qualifications) is also complete garbage. If that were the truth, why do we get the statistical discrepancies between Asian, white, and URM students? Year in and year out, the numbers may fluctuate slightly, but the ultimate story always remains the same. Are people really suggesting that Ivies pass up the most numerically qualified URMs and white students (i.e. those with the highest SATs and GPAs) in order to admit their lesser achieving counterparts? Are high scoring whites or URMs just study robots like Asians that don't deserve to be admitted over their lower-scoring, but more "well-rounded" peers? Or are people suggesting that somehow all the best admits from these categories decide to go other schools (even though the Asian-white-URM pattern holds up throughout most of academia)? These are the scenarios that would have to be happening for the numbers to even remotely make sense.

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