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[quote=Anonymous]What exactly is the problem?

This is the opening statement:

[i]Using publicly released reports, we examine the preferences Harvard gives for recruited athletes, legacies, those on the dean’s interest list, and children of faculty and staff (ALDCs). Among white admits, over 43% are ALDC. Among admits who are African American, Asian American, and Hispanic, the share is less than 16% each. [/i]

If you look up national racial demographics for college bound students, white students make up around 49% of students as of 2015 (and likely slightly less now). AAs are 15%, Hispanics are 25% and Asians 5%. Seems like the white share of ALDCs and AA share of ALDCs are roughly approximate to their national demographics. There are less Hispanics, but Hispanics are also a relatively new demographic that has only recently become prominent (working their way up the system, so to speak). Asians are greatly overrepresented as per national demographics.

So I am not clutching my pearls at the Harvard numbers.

What I do see in both this report and other posters on this thread are people reaching for the statistics that favors them and trying to bolster their case by comparing them to different statistics to somehow make their case seem stronger. At the end of the day, Harvard does what Harvard wants to do.

I suppose the real crime, insofar as there is one, are institutions that preach meritocracy and the crime of judging or discriminating on the basis of race on one hand and on the other hand practicing an admissions policy that is very racially driven in order to achieve its ideal diversity. [/quote]

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