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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This thread is bizarre. The question is asking why Harvard is 51% minority while the country is only 37% minority. Harvard admits 22% Asians, more than 4x  or 17% higher than the national fraction of Asian-Americans (4.8%)...a margin that is more than sufficient to explain the different between 37% vs 51% minority.

Any y'all are fixated on the 2% over-representation of black Americans?

No wonder your kids won't get into Harvard. You lack basic reasoning skills.

-- Harvard PhD[/quote]

Do I really need to break this out to you

We are talking about one of the best schools in the country which should have the best students in the country attending not proportional representation

Bet you are a liberal

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And they do have the best students. Whenever people talk about this issue the only disparity that is brought up is test scores. Nothing else, ever.  All that will happen is these top schools will eliminate using tests as a metric.[/quote]

Exactly. The URM population has been rising at all of the elite schools while the test scores have also incrementally increased or remained constant. If there was something to backup that a higher % of minorities meant a weaker student body, there'd be a case, but in fact the opposite is true. [/quote]

The elite schools are always going to get the elite applicants across all segments.  To see an erosion in student quality you'd have to look at the second and third tier schools where I'm sure it is evident.  [/quote]

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