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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]75% of the minorities attending Ivies are from wealthy families.  It’s not helping the “disadvantaged”.  It’s helping the elite.

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A citation would be great.[/quote]

It’s more like 81%. [/quote]

Yep.  Do people not have google chrome?

It should be noted that Harvard’s plan will have the effect of adding further affluent influence to an already relatively affluent black student body. Once upon a time back in the 1960s, Harvard aimed to recruit high-potential black students from the so-called urban ghettos. In recent years, it appears that the vast majority of black students at Harvard come from upper-middle-class to affluent families. Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr., director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African-American Research at Harvard University, has stated his belief that very few of Harvard’s black students are the descendants of American slaves and that [b]most black students at Harvard were from middle-class or affluent black families[/b]. A [b]2006 study by researchers at Princeton and the University of Pennsylvania found that more than one quarter of the native-born black students at 28 selective colleges and universities came from families with annual incomes over $100,000. Therefore, the new Harvard financial aid plan is likely to add more relatively affluent black students to a group that is already relatively affluent.[/b]

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Call it the Ivy League’s dirty little secret: While America’s most elite colleges do in fact make it a point to promote ethnic diversity on their campuses, a lot of them do so by admitting hugely disproportionate numbers of wealthy immigrants and their children rather than black students with deep roots—and troubled histories—in the United States.

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-harsh-truth-about-black-enrollment-at-americas-elite-colleges-2020-06-25

https://www.good.is/articles/ivy-league-fooled-how-america-s-top-colleges-avoid-real-diversity[/quote]

The research says this is because the public schools serving the disadvantaged minorities are so bad that the top Universities don't want to risk admitting kids that won't be up for the rigor of the academics when they arrive.  So- they won't hedge their bets and will admit affluent/UMC minorities from good school systems or privates.  [/quote]

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