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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't understand why someone would think that whites' (or any other racial group's) motivation is racial solidarity.  As a nonathletic, non-legacy white person, why would I be happy that white athletes and legacies are benefiting from preferences?  As a non-athletic, non-legacy white person, I recognize that I am being screwed by athletic, legacy, and race preferences.  I understand the motives behind these preferences: legacies and athletes make the university more profitable.  Race preferences appeal to the racists on the left, Harvard's natural constituency. [/quote]

The thing is ... you "understand the motives" behind the preferences that overwhelmingly benefit white applicants. You see an arguable value to that. You apparently don't see a value to race-based weighting. Other reasonable minds value things differently. A lot of people see a value to racial diversity and avoiding student populations that are too unbalanced. They also see value to the different point of view and cultural background brought by students of different races.

The larger point, the reality that these numbers reveal is that admissions to super competitive schools are not merit-based in the way that some people define merit. They cannot be because schools receive so many more similarly qualified applicants than they can take. They need to consider other factors beyond grades and scores, which are not really the objective standard a lot of people thing they are, anyway. Rejected applicants that file lawsuits because they "should've" gotten in have a misplaced sense of entitlement.[/quote]

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