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[quote=Anonymous]How is it dumb?

So many people think that URMs have a MUCH higher acceptance rate at the expense of non URMs. At some schools, I won't deny it, yes- that is the case (the links make them clear)- but it's not many schools. Most of the Ivies and Stanford don't report their data, but I would guess their acceptance rates are similar as well akin to Cornell due to their status. They get enough qualified black applicants such that the vast majority are denied.

Yes, there's no context here. We don't know what the black students are like in terms of GPA and whatnot. I get that. But is it not superlative in context to rank in the 99% of the 150,000 black test takers? (http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:LLj12GK-70EJ:www.collegeboard.com/prod_downloads/highered/ra/sat/CR_M_%2520W_PercentileRanksGenderEthnicGroups.pdf+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us) A score of a 700 may be the bottom 25% at several elite schools, but it is a distinguished score for Mexican and American students. [/quote]

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