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[quote=Anonymous]A simple explanation of the admission rate differences is the fact that the vast majority of Asian American applicants (nearly 90%) to elite schools are STEM oriented. As a group, STEM SAT scores and GPAs are higher than non-STEM students. So any kind of numerical target for the number of STEM students will increase the competitive pressure on STEM students and appear to function like a cap on Asians, since they almost all fall in the same STEM bucket.  The fact that STEM schools without strong arts, humanities and social science programs (MIT, CalTech) do not have the same admissions patterns as the Ivies.

If the Ivies were as anti-Asian as alleged, there would be a lot more they could do to discourage Asian attendance than just capping the admissions rate at 10x the general population. Instead, you see tons of institutional support for Asian-American affinity and cultural groups, travel educational opportunities in Asia, and plenty of Asian tenured faculty and senior administrators. [/quote]

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