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The bottom line is this:  if you took all the names off the college applications so that the admissions directors could not tell what race an applicant is, way way more asians would be getting accepted.  So all your arguing that it's because asians only have good grades and test scores, that they have fewer ECs, no sports... none of that is relevant because it is already being taken into consideration in the admissions process.  Nobody is just comparing test scores and we understand that.  And nobody is complaining that only test scores and gpa's should count.  We are comparing EVERYTHING.  What is happening is that an asian applicant with the same credentials including ECs, leadership ability... is not getting in just because they're asian (or they need above and beyond other races to get accepted).  Why is that so hard to understand?  I hate to stereotype but YOU really sound like an asian that must have only had good grades and not much of anything else including common sense.  Maybe back when you went to ivy, it wasn't so competitive for asians to get in. [/quote]

I think this is a great idea.  I think race and gender should be removed from the application.  It would make it more like those blind orchestra auditions.  If we find that the result is too few white/black/hispanic males, we should then change the objective criteria so that even with a blind admission, they would be selected.  Perhaps put a even higher weight on football, for example.

If we find the asians/women change their strategy so that they still get selected, maybe we should rethink admissions altogether.  Maybe schools should mark students as qualified/not-qualified and then use a random number generator to select.  They would get the correct proportion of every kind of diversity that way, as long as they didn't set the "qualified" bar too high.[/quote]

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