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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Nothing's wrong if Harvard becomes 70% Asians just like Howard is 80% Blacks.

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And will apply except other asians if this is so?[/quote]

Probably very few other people. It will reach a tipping point and you'll see white flight out of the ivies and into LACs or Southern flagships or something. Much like TJ - white parents no longer encourage their kids to apply, leaving it even more disproportionately Asian than it otherwise would be [/quote]
This is why the Asians will never win these cases against the Ivy schools.  Too much money and power behind these institutions.  [/quote]

It will be interesting to see how this plays out. I think the SC will end affirmative action in college admissions. It will have a domino effect on legacies, donors, etc, that even Edward Blum is all for:

[quote]What is your response to the argument that losing affirmative action would actually worsen inequality in education?

No, it wouldn’t. In our expert reports in Harvard, our expert showed that if Harvard abandoned legacy preferences, if they abandoned preferences for the children of faculty and staff, if they gave less of a preference to certain athletic teams, stopped giving preferences to kids on the Dean’s List—which means the donors list in in stark terms—and lowered the bar a little bit for kids from a lower socioeconomic strata than the typical Harvard kid comes from, do all of that, and you can maintain racial and ethnic diversity without classifying students by race and then treating them differently by race. There is a way to go about doing this without putting a thumb on the scale.[/quote] https://time.com/6225372/edward-blum-affirmative-action-supreme-court-interview/

I have listened to some podcasts with college admission officers and college admissions insiders (e.g., college counselors at private high schools, independent counselors, etc.), and they all agree that legacy and even athletic recruitment for elite sports will probably end at T30s will end as a consequence and TO will remain. That will dramatically change the demographics at elite schools.[/quote]

Public flagships at college towns that are attractive are going to be massive beneficiaries of this policy.

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