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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Oops, I misread what you were saying. The % enrolled is meaningless on its own. We have to know what % applied and what % was accepted to make any conclusions.

Pretty much everyone goes to Harvard unless they decide to go to Yale, Stanford, or Princeton. This is true for every race. [/quote]

"This decline might seem small. But these same years brought a huge increase in America’s college-age Asian population, which roughly doubled between 1992 and 2011, while non-Hispanic white numbers remained almost unchanged. Thus, according to official statistics, the percentage of Asian-Americans enrolled at Harvard fell by more than 50 percent over the last two decades, while the percentage of whites changed little. This decline in relative Asian-American enrollment was actually larger than the impact of Harvard’s 1925 Jewish quota, which reduced Jewish freshmen from 27.6 percent to 15 percent."

http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2012/12/19/fears-of-an-asian-quota-in-the-ivy-league/statistics-indicate-an-ivy-league-asian-quota[/quote]

An increase in America's College-age Asian population may have came with an increase in the number of Asians applying. Or it might not have. We don't know. [/quote]

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