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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The table doesn't suggest that white people will get the lion's share of the gains if race is removed as a consideration. Whites gained 145 admissions if race was removed as a consideration.  Asian/Asian American gained 1206 admissions if race was removed as a consideration.  The admissions for African American and Hispanic Americans were cut in half.

Race based considerations in admissions benefits African American and Hispanic kids. It disadvantages Asian American kids.  It barely effects the admission rate for white kids at all. [/quote]

Exactly.[/quote]

Idiot agrees with idiot. [/quote]

...says the Chief Idiot.[/quote]

You're incapable of understanding that the table shows what happens if race AND legacy AND athlete preferences are removed.  It patently does not show what the PP claimed, namely that it shows what happens if race (and race only) is removed as a consideration..

I can't even make logical sense of it if it was true.  The assumption you're reaching is that AA and Hispanics are less qualified.  So if you take them out of the equation, the next 1350 kids who are qualified are 1206 Asians and 145 whites?  In other words, of the first say 4000 kids who are at the 'top' of the heap, the distribution is 50% white, 40% Asian and 10% everyone else.  But of the next 1000 most qualified kids (the ones getting shut out), 90% of those kids are Asian?  I don't see how that is even remotely possible.

Are you white people just 4000 qualified kids and then a bunch of idiots?

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