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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The % enrolled is meaningless without knowing how many people applied. For all we know (and I personally believe this is the case) the enrolled percent followed the applied percent. All the hard data we've seen suggests that this is the case. If that's "powerful statistical evidence" than a survey of 20 Black undergrads at Yale on their opinions on affirmative action counts as "strong statistical evidence" that the vast majority of Harvard undergrads support affirmative action. [/quote]

Wouldn't it be nice to have those numbers? The pending litigation is in discovery stage so we may found out more regarding the number of applied, number of acceptances by gender, race etc. for the past 20 years.

You dismiss few percentages as insignificant but refuse to offer explanation as to why only the Asian American group experiences lower acceptance rate in comparison to the percentage of the applicant pool. You also dismiss enrollment rates as meaningless. Actually, since Asians are supposedly obsessed with Ivy schools, shouldn't Asian enrollment numbers be higher than other groups thereby slightly lowering the (unknown) acceptances in comparison to other groups? Asian American accptance percentage may even be lower than the enrollment numbers.    [/quote]

And the pending litigation would get nowhere even if it was discovered that the % accepted for Asians was lower than expected, because the problem has already been corrected as of this admissions cycle.

The explanation is statistical error. Harvard is hand picking candidates, there could have been slightly less Asians than they wanted to admit just because that's just how the applicant pool turned out. You cannot conclude widespread and significant discrimination from the difference of a few tens of applicants from Asians having the same % accepted as Blacks or Hispanics.

Enrollment is irrelevant. We're only looking at applications vs acceptances. That data was published before Harvard knew how many of each race enrolled. The class of 2019 profile will be published later. [/quote]

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