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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]He wanted to major in computer science. It is hard to get into an Ivy but even harder if you want to major in computer science.

He was rejected from UC Berkeley, which hasn't used race in admission for over 25 years. Cal Tech also which tends to admit more based on GPA and test scores and not on diversity.

He doesn't come across very well in the interview I watched. He spent a lot of time growing up playing golf instead of a participating in a team sport.

Perhaps if he went to a school that was more than 2% black (Florida is 15% black) he would have put more thought into joining the lawsuit.

No one took his spot, chances are he never would have been admitted even if he had applied this year. [/quote]

THis 1000%!  He was rejected from HIGHLY rejective schools.  They all have single digit acceptance rates, in general.  He wanted CS major.  That is even MORE selective so likely 2-3% acceptance rates.  
Hint: It's not about your race.  It's about the fact that 97% of those who apply will get rejected from that school with that intended major.  And in reality, once you get to 1540+ they don't (and shouldn't ) care what your Score is.  
So if you were able to look at who was Not accepted, I'm willing to bet there are plenty of people with 1540+ who were rejected, and some 1580/1590/1600.  Perhaps it's the entitled attitude as well that makes them not want him as part of freshman class
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Sorry we have the Supreme Court decision already.
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And the Supreme Court decision is about race.  Not that the schools "Must take students with a 1600 first, then those with 1590, etc." Fact is elite schools have a level above which they don't care what your scores are.  They then look at everything else.  So yes, your 1590 does not make you any more special than a 15XY (or whatever the cut off is for that school). The school can choose to take someone from a "poor zip code" who has only a 1500 and only took 2 APs because that is all their HS offered.  They are allowed to "consider that kid highly qualified", no mater what you think.  Because fact is people of all races live in those zip codes and live in poor zip codes.

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Schools don't have a cutoff.  They will value a 1590 over a 1580 but just not as much as they might value other things.
but they cannot discriminate based on race and they cannot use proxies as an artifice for discriminating based on race.[/quote]

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