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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Higher Ed admin here: if I were your supervisor and caught you doing this, I might actually fire you.[/quote]

LOL. Having gone through the highly selective admissions process last year, this is what's wrong with it in a nutshell. Why does everything have to be shrouded behind some curtain of mystery? I'm very impressed with both UVA and William & Mary for their admissions blogs, which share as much information as they can, as quickly as possible. The better informed applicants and their parents are, the better they can manage their search process. In particular, I wish highly selective schools were far more forthright with extremely detailed information (e.g., "Only 3% of non-URM applicants with SATs below 2100 were accepted and they were all recruited athletes"), instead of this "holistic" stuff, which just inspires kids with no hopes of being accepted to apply.[/quote]

What do URM admit rates have to do with other a non-URM's search process?[/quote]

LOL. This says literally NOTHING about URM acceptance rates. It says what the acceptance rates is for non-URMs.

Fine, even better would be a chart that showed admit rates by ethnicity, based on test scores and GPA. That way, regardless of your background, you would know the real odds for acceptance. [/quote]

They did a study like this for UVA, W&M and NCST.  Obviously not in the same class as the university's discussed here but informative.  https://www.nas.org/images/documents/report_affirmative_action_at_three_universities.pdf

At UVA, blacks with SAT scores between 950-1050 slightly more than 50% were accepted. Whites with SAT scores between 1350-1450 were accepted at a rate slightly higher than 40%.  The odds ratio calculations show that blacks are about 100 times more likely to be accepted at UVA as whites when they have similar credentials.  The ratio at W&M was even worse (267 times as likely)

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