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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Also, URM = shoe in is incorrect. People don't realize that these days the applicant pool at most top schools is one where white applicants are not a majority. Brown's 2021 applicant profile (http://www.browndailyherald.com/2017/03/21/class-2021-applicant-profile/) is 9% Black- that's nearly 3000 black student applicants. Brown's admit profile looks around 11% African American, so less than 300 black students are getting in and nearly 2700 are getting denied.

Some top colleges post their black student acceptance rates here: https://www.jbhe.com/2017/01/black-first-year-students-at-the-nations-leading-research-universities-2016/ It's no where near 100% for any of them. And even for the missing ones, if you use the overall yields to extrapolate acceptances (Columbia overall yield = 65%, 176 enrolled black students = 271 admitted, [i]black acceptance rate = 5.8%[/i]) you'll see that there's barely a boost, if any. [/quote]

That 5.8% acceptance rate would be more like 1.8% without the URM hook.[/quote]

And still your non-URM kid would still have a low probability of getting in.[/quote]

It would be a more fair system without all these preferences and hooks. [/quote]

System will never be fair as long as money and prestige is involved. This includes sports, endowments, etc.[/quote]

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