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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Actually, I have a source: http://features.thecrimson.com/2017/freshman-survey/makeup/

2017- 25.2% Asian
2018- 24.3% Asian
2019- 23.5% Asian
2020- 26.6% Asian
2021- 23.8% Asian

If you look at just domestic students alone, Asians represent 24% of Harvard's student group (https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/08/24/us/affirmative-action.html) and average about 22% at all 8 Ivies. The domestic Asian percent is 5.6%.  That means Asians are highly over-represented at the Ivies- by a factor of 4 times. Am I missing something?[/quote]
Yes,  you are missing something. The point is not about how Asians are over represented. The point is that Asians have to out score every group, and by A LOT in some cases, to get in.  Yea yea I know about holistic approach, but IMO, "holistic" is just euphamis for affirmative action.

If a black student gets in even though he scored 500 points lower than the white or asian guy, but he has something else unique about him that the school wants, isn't that "holistic" approach?

Similarly, if a white student scoress 200 points lower than the Asian guy, but has something unique about him, then they will take the white guy over the asian guy.

Universities don't want 90% of the same types of Asian students, or white students, in their student body.  I get that.  But like I said, if you are against affirmative action, then you should also be against holistic approach.

--signed an asian[/quote]

Ivys only admit status conscious Asians whose sole goal is to beat (and often cheat) the test scores, effectively preventing another group of "holistic Asian students" to EVER be considered, because the game playing high-test score Asians fill all the quota very quickly. Not to mention the quota includes a huge number of international students, meaning the talented American students of Asian heritage are systematically overlooked.

A huge injustice to a very specific group of real talented students.[/quote]

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