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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Right. It could also suggest that something else is at work that favors white applicants and thus that it’s not so simple to assume that things would play out as the simple math suggests.  It’s odd to think that for the first 7000 applicants you get one result but for this group you get a wildly different result.  If Asians have a lower score for everything else it should manifest itself consistently throughout the process I think. I just don’t understand the disparity, which is why I think the simple subtraction methodology must be off somehow. That seems the simpler explanation than anything else.

I suppose the most obvious answer is that an unspoken cap exists on Asian admissions so even if you got rid of these preferences the ultimate beneficiaries would be white kids. [/quote]

If you remove all preferences, Asians would be the primary beneficiaries with whites behind them.  The Asian admit rate increases more than 2 absolute points from 6.5% to 8.6%.  The white admit rate increases 1 absolute point from 6.9% to 7.9%.  Asians have both a relative and absolute advantage in this case.  Of course both groups gain at the expense of African Americans and Hispanics.

There may be an unspoken cap on Asian admissions as there was for Jews and other ethnic groups at certain times in the past.  Evidence for such a cap prompted the lawsuit in the first place.[/quote]

+1.

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