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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]When you only have 1500-1700 kids per class like most small elite universities, you want to have an interesting mix. You don't want everyone to be a CS nerd, pre-med, or future consultant. 
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That's what they say, but the reality is that it means "we want more blacks, we don't want too many Asians". That is the working definition of "interesting".[/quote]

Tons and tons of interesting Asians. They just have more interesting hobbies and academic interests than you and your kid. 
And none of them are stem majors.[/quote]

This is not about what I think. This is about what elite college admissions committees clearly think, as demonstrated by their actions. They simply don’t want “too many” Asians. Boring![/quote]

Asians are massively over represented at good universities [/quote]

They are overrepresented because of higher average test scores and higher average high school GPAs. If you control for test scores and GPAs they are not overrepresented among. 60% people that get a 750+ on their SAT math score are asian.  For people with scores between 700-750 approximately 39% are Asian. If anything they are actually underrepresented among the universe of people with 700+ SAT math scores  at elite universities [/quote]

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