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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Perhaps the intent is noble, but it seems largely self-serving, to the extent some of those schools want maximum discretion to describe their admissions policies as holistic and then turn away Asian students.[/quote]

I see what you mean, but isn't it also possible that colleges want to have successful philosophy, theater, psychology, fine arts, and language  and literature departments, etc. in which student success is less correlated with high schoolers' standardized tests? [b]And dare I say, less common choices for Asian Americans?[/b][/quote]

Do you have any actual evidence for this, or, dare I say, are you simply indulging in casual racism?  [/quote]

Sure. Pointing out a correlation is not racist. Here is data from the census showing among other things that 50% of Asian students' bachelors degrees were in science and engineering compared to 33% of whites. 23% of whites in arts and humanities and 14% of Asians. https://www.census.gov/prod/2012pubs/acs-18.pdf   I am NOT saying that a school should assume what any one applicant wants to major in based on race. But I am saying that if they get many fewer Asian applicants than white applicants who want to study psychology, and they have a psychology department they need to fill, they may let in a white student with lower scores who wants to major in psychology instead of an additional Asian student who wants to study engineering, because their engineering department is already full.[/quote]

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