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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Harvard has 6.56% Black students
Yale has 6.53% Black students
Princeton has 10% Black students (undergrad)

Can someone please explain to me how this is unacceptable to folks? Would y'all prefer those percentages be 0%??

https://datausa.io/profile/university/harvard-university#:~:text=The%20enrolled%20student%20population%20at%20Harvard%20University%20is%2039.7%25%20White,Hawaiian%20or%20Other%20Pacific%20Islanders.
https://datausa.io/profile/university/yale-university
https://inclusive.princeton.edu/about/demographics[/quote]

I honestly don't care whether those student bodies are 30% black or 3% black, so long as the admissions factors are race-neutral.  I don't want a college excluding [b][i]or including[/b][/i] anyone because of the color of their skin.[/quote]

Most people who say this mean they want a way to game admissions in their favor. The last thing they want is a fair process.[/quote]

Nothing in elite private college admissions is "fair."

They are the "sellers" here and will pick whomever they want to shape a class.[/quote]

The North Carolina portion of the case is the much more important part. State schools don't have the resources to carefully curate a class- they have to be formulaic. Eliminating race from the formula will change the composition of the student body. Cal is just now getting back to where they were prior to AA being banned in California and they are spending a fortune to get there. States where it is banned that haven't gone that route have see African American enrollment plummet. Do you really think the NC legislature will let UNC do the spend? What about Wisconsin or Ohio? [/quote]

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