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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If your kid had perfect or close to perfect grades in AP classes, high SAT scores, strong extracurricular activities and got rejected from all the top schools, what do you think went wrong?[/quote]

Kid was born into an Asian family could be the answer.[/quote]

This^. There is a lot of bias for Asian/SouthAsian applicants. [/quote]

And they end up at Duke instead of Harvard. [/quote]

No they end up at Caltech and UCs which don’t discriminate against Asians.  Numbers don’t lie. Caltech is 40% Asian, UCs are 30+. If Harvard gave Asians a fair shake it would probably have over 50% Asians. [/quote]

This^.[/quote]

You are right. It is not the class of 2025. But fall 2021-2022 enrolment for undergrads is still 44%.

https://registrar.caltech.edu/records/enrollment-statistics

And those numbers aren’t in any way influenced by the fact that California is 15% Asian vs 6% for the country as a whole. If anything UC and Cal Tech (36.6%) don’t overrepresent Asian to the same degree that Harvard (25%) does. [/quote]

Class of 2025, Harvard 26%, Caltech 44%[/quote]

2021-22 Cal Tech CDS says 75 Asian first year students out of a class of 270. Would you like to do the math on that?

Total undergraduate Asian enrollment is 341 out of 987.[/quote][/quote]

[b]You are right. It is not the class of 2025. But fall 2021-2022 enrolment for undergrads is still 44%.

https://registrar.caltech.edu/records/enrollment-statistics[/b]

those numbers include multi-racial students added to each category, so the total percentages exceed 100%. You can't compare that to Harvard which doesn't break out multi-racial students in their number. If you are comparing apple to apples, the 341 out of 987 from the CDS is the same measurement (35%). 
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