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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Higher education shoud be mainly for acedemic merit and must be color blind.
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"Of 35,000 applicants competing for 1,600 spots in the class of 2019, 2,700 had perfect verbal SAT scores; 3,400 had perfect math SAT scores; more than 8,000 had perfect GPAs."

From the facts in the actual case. Now what?[/quote]

But that are the scores of the applicants.  What are the verbal SAT, math SAT, and GPA of the admitted students?[/quote]

Why does that matter.  Harvard would not be able to fill its seats based merely on a formula on "objective" scores like SAT scores or GPA.  If they only considered perfect GPA or perfect SAT scores or whatever, they would still have to choose between applicants to fill their class.  And they, as a private institution, should be able to decide that these scores are not what they are looking for in a student body.  They have determined that their formula for selecting Harvard students tries to suss out potential to make an impact in some way or the other.  They may be wrong.  And if they are wrong, their brand value will go down.  Let the market determine if their strategy is successful or not.  [/quote]

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