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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Please cite your sources. Take a look at the Black acceptance rates against the overall rates, and they're not nearly that much higher (in many cases, they are lower).

https://www.jbhe.com/2016/01/black-first-year-students-at-leading-research-universities/

https://www.jbhe.com/2017/01/black-first-year-students-at-the-nations-leading-liberal-arts-colleges-2016/
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This is examining it at UVA, W&M and NC St.: http://www.ceousa.org/attachments/article/665/VAS%20Report.pdf

From the report: "The odds ratio for blacks compared to whites at NCS is 13 to 1, but at UVA it is 106 to 1 and at William &Mary 267 to 1. In other words, at UVA the odds of a black student being admitted is more than 100 times the odds of admission of a white student with the same qualifications. The odds of admitting a black applicant at William & Mary is more than 250 times the odds of admitting an equally-qualified white applicant."

Blacks at UVA had an average SAT score of 1026 compared to 1350 for the entire student body.

Here's one for elite universities: https://www.princeton.edu/~tje/files/webOpportunity%20Cost%20of%20Admission%20Preferences%20Espenshade%20Chung%20June%202005.pdf

"African-American applicants receive the equivalent of 230 extra SAT points (on a 1600-point scale), and being Hispanic is worth an additional 185 SAT points. Other things equal, re- cruited athletes gain an admission bonus worth 200 points, while the pref- erence for legacy candidates is worth 160 points. Asian-American applicants face a loss equivalent to 50 SAT points."

I will apologize for saying the URM bump is much greater; it's somewhat greater but the legacy bump is larger than I remembered.
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