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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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] At lot of Asians come from countries where test scores are the determining factor for state college admission (in some countries private universities is a very new thing). It is all they know. Study hard, get good grades and test scores so you can hopefully get into a good state university. It is why some can't understand why the same process does not work, and will never work, in the U.S. Private institutions will always find a way to gerrymander the applicants to get the desired mix of students. 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][/quote] At lot of Asians come from countries where test scores are the determining factor for state college admission (in some countries private universities is a very new thing). It is all they know. Study hard, get good grades and test scores so you can hopefully get into a good state university. It is why some can't understand why the same process does not work, and will never work, in the U.S. Private institutions will always find a way to gerrymander the applicants to get the desired mix of students. 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] [/quote] This is interesting and very good to know. Are these admissions tests typically like the SATs — or assessments of specific course content? Or something completely different from what most of us in the US would be familiar with? Not that I understand how it works, but are the tests more like the British O and A level exams? [/quote]
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