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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]More evidence that athletic, legacy, donor and children of faculty and staff (ALDC) are by far the most strongly advantaged in the admissions process. http://public.econ.duke.edu/~psarcidi/legacyathlete.pdf

Using the data disclosed in the lawsuit, the researchers modeled it and came to several conclusions. From the abstract: published a bunch of findings including:

Holistic admissions favors students in these categories, not minorities or first gen students (unless they are also in one of these groups).

43% of Harvard white admits fall into the above categories. [b]Three-quarters of those admitted ALDCs would be rejected without those hooks based on their academic records.[/b]

Only by removing prefs for legacy and athletes will you change the admission rates of non-white racial and ethnic groups.

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That makes no sense, since academic record alone has never been a criteria for admission, and there is no minimum threshold. They can admit someone who never attended high school and didn't take the SAT if they want to.[/quote]

It makes sense to me.  There are probably at least four qualified applicants for every seat.  So if you take any random group of people accepted at Harvard because of a special status and put them back in the pool that is more or less random chance, then 3/4 of them would not be accepted, right?  
I didn’t go to Harvard though, so maybe I am off.

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