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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It doesn't matter. Now that test optional is the new standard and colleges describe a "holistic process", they will take whomever they want with even more opacity.

The process is completely broken. [/quote]

Don't you think that will lead to more lawsuits?  Isn't that what led to the Harvard-Asian lawsuit where they had an opaque process but during discovery it was found that Asians were discriminated against just because they were Asian?

How would a new process work?  What kind of notes would the college admissions team write to indicate that a particular applicant is say, Asian or Rich White?  Use a code?  Wouldn't that be discovered eventually and subject the college to more lawsuits?

10 years or so after race is gone as a criteria, someone else will sue these guys alleging discrimination.  Discovery will show that there was indeed discrimination.  Not that difficult to prove these days with the extensive paper/electronic trail that's available.

Colleges could of course go the simpler route of going for-profit, pay up the taxes they owe and most of us wouldn't give two sh*ts about how they pick their cohorts..[/quote]

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