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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Lot of angry losers who thought SCOTUS was handing Ivy slots to their kids that just can’t make the grade.[/quote]

Let's do the math. In 2022 the SAT test taker demographics were as follows (from https://reports.collegeboard.org/media/pdf/20...ts-annual-report.pdf)

175,468 Asians
201,645 Black/African Americans
396,422 Hispanic/Latino
732,946 White

In 2020, the percentage of takers getting a 1500+/1400+ (respectively) by race were:

9%/23% of Asians
<1%/1% of Black/African Americans
<1%/2% of Hispanics/Latinos
2%/7% of Whites

That means that among the pool of people getting 1500/1400+ (rounding <1% to 0.5%):

15,792/40,357 are Asian
1,008/2,016 are Black
1,982/7,928 are Hispanic
14,658/51,306 are White

They're not getting mad, they're getting theirs[/quote]
Since almost all schools superscore, you are grossly underestimating the numbers of kids with higher scores…the discrepancy, while undoubtedly large, also would be smaller because, on average, Asians take the test more times, even than whites - and blacks the least.[/quote]

If this data is correct , The ivy league would be

Asian - 50%

White - 46%

Hispanic - 3%

Black - 1%[/quote]

If they went purely on academics, yes[/quote]

White people want enough academics to eliminate blacks and Hispanics but not so much academics as to eliminate them. So it’s kind of like merit-lite. [/quote]

Pretty sure that isn't the case. SFFA had to recruit Asians for SFFA v Harvard because they could not get any white candidates to sign on.[/quote]

They tried with white plaintiffs in the Texas case.  SFFA was entirely about discrimination against asians.  They didn't use white plaintiffs because they couldn't show discrimination against white plaintiffs compared to asians.  They could show discrimination against asians compared to whites.[/quote]

They ran ads trying to get both but were unsuccessful in getting anyone white to sign on. The Texas case was a dog, the girl wasn’t a good example of anything.[/quote]

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