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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Bottom line: [b] The system is fine tuned for the colleges to build exactly the class they want. [/b] If you want to change the system you'll have to start by convincing them to not do that.  Unlikely to ever happen, and with good reason.

The mistaken assumption is that elite colleges simply take the X best candidates and offer admission to them.  Completely untrue and it has never been that way.  They build a class to accommodate a long list which makes up their institutional mission.  And in the current system they do it extremely well, test scores or no test scores.[/quote]

No. Private colleges, maybe.
But not publics. Giving undue weight to race is illegal as we will soon find out from the SC[/quote]

No one but you is talking about legality.  That change will only make a minor adjustment to the process and affect a very small change in the admitted students at very few schools.

[b]Despite your sock puppetting a[/b]nd attempt to change the OP's topic, people only care about this with the most elite colleges, really just the top 50 anyway.

The top 50 will always be able to pick whoever they want to build the class they want based on their mission, regardless of any supreme court decision.[/quote]

I haven't sock puppeted anything here. And you are wrong.  If the colleges are required by law to eliminate consideration of race, the percentage of [b]Asians will zoom to 75-80 percent of the elite colleges admissions. Guaranteed[/b].[/quote]

Ridiculous statement.

Most Asian Americans live in California. This isn't even the case at the elite CA publics or CA privates. And overall, they are only 7% of the U.S. population.

[b]Get real[/b].[/quote]

You're right. It'll probably only be 50%[/quote]

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