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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hmm.

The article:

* Legacies
* Children of faculty or donors
* URMs
* First gen
* Students from upscale private schools
* Top 1% of applicants

Reaction from DCUM parents when their kid gets rejected or wait listed at a selective college:

* URM!!!
*First gen!!!
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[b]Perhas because statistically that’s all the AOs care about. They wish the other categories would go away[/b] [/quote]

You're ridiculous. The white student population at every ivy is larger than any other ethnicity. Don't be grumpy that you don't get ALL of the spots.  :roll: 
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THANK YOU for pointing this out. The way some people post here, you'd think these colleges are full of non-white kids. It's clear when you tour that the majority of spots are still going to white kids. [/quote]

Here are the numbers from 2020:

US population:

White 59%

Yale:

White 33%

The proportion of “non-white kids” does not correspond to the national average.

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First, Yale is a private institution, so they are allowed to determine who they admit.

Second, if you look at the CDS for Yale for 2020, to accurately look at that, you need to remove the "non resident aliens" as those are foreign students/non-us students.  When you do that the caucasian students at Yale is ~39%.

THird: while 59% of the USA is white, in 2022 (can't easily find data for 2020) only 53% of college students are caucasian.   So the difference you pointed out is in actually not 26% but only 14%.

Finally: No college needs to have their student body correspond to the "national average" for ethnicity.  Yale is a private institution and can select whomever they want.  
Largely they select students for their academic accomplishments, their EC/non-academic accomplishments, their sports, volunteering, etc.   They fill the class based on the accomplishments of who applied.  When admission rate is less than 10% it will feel "unfair" to many, because 90% will be rejected despite "having the qualifications".

Yale could fill an entire freshman class with highly qualified "white people", or with "highly qualified Asians" or "highly qualified blacks" or "highly qualified hispanics" or whatever category you feel the need to list (it feels so crude to even type this sentence btw). Because they only need ~1600 students to matriculate, not $25 Million, and there are ways more than 1600 qualified students from every ethnicity in the US. But that wouldn't be very interesting or the best environment for students to learn and grow because most college bound people in the USA don't want to live in a homogenous environment.  You learn the most from being in a diverse environment.

Get over your "white people are being discriminated against" because in the history of the US, that's just not the case. It's most of these other groups who have to live with discrimination in various forms on a daily basis.  Yes, it might be slightly (just slightly) harder for a white male to gain admissions to an "elite" university.  A smart white male would recognize that he's had a ton of privilege and doors opened in life for just the color of his skin and the fact he's got a penis.  And perhaps that means he's had less obstacles to encounter in this path of life.  Going to an Ivy League school is not a birthright.  Most people don't achieve that, no matter how smart they are simply because there are a lot of smart people and not enough spaces and Ivy's are damn expensive.  So move on, find you place and start doing and living life and stop complaining.

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:lol:  :lol:  :lol: Okay, Thanks Yale. [/quote]

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