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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There are some truly dense people on DCUM who keep saying URMs are unqualified based test scores.  This isn't China!  If you want a system based entirely on test scores, you are in the wrong country. [/quote]

On the other hand, there are some truly dense people on DCUM that keep saying that a college application should be based more on test scores (which I agree with), but then act as if though Asian applicants to Harvard also don’t have all of those leadership and extracurricular activities that people deem to be important in holistic admissions. The factor that is in dispute in the Harvard case isn’t that other racial groups had better leadership experiences or extracurricular activities than Asians, but rather even after taking all of that into account, Harvard still thought Asians would be too overrepresented and then artificially and systemically assigned lower personality scores to that group.

THAT is the part that is frankly being neglected on both sides of the argument - it’s not about test scores on the one hand and it’s not about leadership/extracurricular activities on the other hand. Instead, even if you minimized or not required test scores and solely concentrated on grades and extracurricular activities, Harvard still didn’t get the racial balance that it wanted and used a subjective personality score to suppress a particular racial minority group. The use of a subjective personality score where the purpose is to try to provide cover for rejecting more applicants from a particular minority group is what the issue is here.[/quote]

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