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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This return to test scores at Dartmouth may indeed be helpful for under resourced students, but with or without it, there aren't a lot of high state URM kids looking at Dartmouth. It doesn't seem to be attractive to large numbers of those students given the size, location, weather, distance to a major US city, the frat bro culture and greater focus on squash, skiing and sailing than football, soccer or basketball. The numbers before Covid weren't impressive so this won't make it more attractive, except perhaps to 1st Gen kids from rural areas. My DD and a few friends participated in a virtual panel and said the students of color were all international. [/quote]

They've recruited from McKinley and Banneker in recent years so they're probably making inroads elsewhere as well. 11% of the freshman class is Black.

What you may have observed is something common amongst top schools. A lot of first-generation Black Ivy kids are first or second generation Americans. [/quote] If anything good comes the Supreme Court decision, it might be that this changes. If colleges want to help disadvantaged students, they should start paying local taxes that support public schools, rather than importing upper middle-class people who "look like America."  [/quote]

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