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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Go look at table 11 on page 49. I guess there is one admissions preference the authors don't want to talk about.

http://public.econ.duke.edu/~psarcidi/legacyathlete.pdf[/quote]

Maybe because the title of the article is 'Legacy and Athlete Preferences at Harvard'.

If anything, the inclusion of the last line on Table 11, which was totally superfluous to the analysis in the article, was the entire point of the article.  They don't need to analyze or defend it because it's presented as a throwaway footnote.  People like you can seize upon the conclusion but no one can do a thoughtful critique of it because they never discuss it.[/quote]

Color me confused.

What's your take when you see the huge racial disparities shown in table 11?[/quote]

I don’t care. The myth that college admissions is a pure meritocracy is inane. No other institution in this country is a meritocracy.  You think all these folks when they leave college are going to get jobs and promotions based on merit?  White kids will more than catch up then because the inherent advantages of being white come back into play. This is all just white people whining because they aren’t consuming 80% of the pie anymore.

And as far as Asians go, we are not so stupid to think that once you get rid racial preferences (and the Harvard case was ONLY about those preferences) that everything will be better.  the legacy and athlete preferences will remain in place and whites will get the lion’s share of the gains.

The table needed to show no racial preference but keeping the ALDC preference as well because rest assured white people know how to game the system to maintain their disproportionate share.

White people are just greedy. So greedy that now they’re trying to claim racism is against them.[/quote]

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