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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]They have minimum floors which eliminate some applicants
Then there are a series of buckets and categories.  They take the best from each category.   Thats how it works
Basically as an Asian person you ARE competing against other Asians plus other people from your school/geographic region, background, etc
You are competing against people that are similar to you and they can't take everyone
Is the top underrepresented minority person first generation college student that went to a terrible high school more deserving than the 100th asian with higher grades/test scores, more extracurriculars, from a high performing school district who knows but chances are the person will get in instead of the 100th asian. 
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So what you are saying is it's fine to discriminate. Grand.[/quote]

Grow up. The whole college admissions process is one long exercise in various kinds of discrimination.  Schools have all sorts of goals in creating their classes. They eliminate some qualified candidates in favor of other qualified candidates for a whole bunch of reasons. [/quote]

"Everyone is doing it for all sorts of reasons".  Sounds fine to me.   :roll:   Intellectually and morally lazy. [/quote]

I don't think you understand what "discrimination" means. [/quote]

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