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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Rice took 10% of its class in questbridge. [/quote]

How do these kids tend to stack up academically? I hate Trump but I don't disagree with him that DEI has gotten out of hand. I am all for breaking a tie or even slightly more than that towards kids who have had fewer opportunities. But "aiming for a target number" is not in the spirit of this...[/quote]

What are you even talking about? Schools aim for target numbers of football players and target numbers of kids from the DMV and target numbers of cellists and target numbers of kids from congressionally-overrepresented states and target numbers of rural (read: Republican) parts of the country.

What "spirit" are you talking about and is it the spirit of Adam Smith or Milton Friedman and should institutional priorities actually be shaped by the invisible hand of anti-DEI brainwashed mediocrity?

Asking for "these kids" and SMDH

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Apples and oranges. You need target numbers for sports, music, etc. so you can have a team, orchestra or whatever else. I don't think there should be targets for race, geography, etc. All things being relatively equal, those should be tie breakers. But nothing beyond that. Schools should not be taking a kid several standard deviations below normal just to fulfill these "goals."[/quote]

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