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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Would it be impermissible discrimination if a university chose to mimic the demographics of the United States in their freshman class?

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Yes racial quotas are (and should be IMO) illegal. [/quote]

We don't have racial quotas.

If racial quotas were REALLY in place we wouldn't have URMs, would we?

Colleges would be artificially represented by demographic percentages.

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Umm, yes, I was responding to a PP who asked about the possibility of matching a class to demographics.  Leaving side the reading comprehension issues, though, I’d prefer honest racial quotas to deceptive “holistic” admissions criteria where people have to burn so much energy trying to work a process that really only exists to provide a fig leaf for demographic balancing exercises.[/quote]

Holistic admissions are great.

Standardized testing is overrated.

Grades and rigor over 4 years trumps a test driven by how much one's parents can pay for test prep, or how many times it's taken for super scoring.[/quote]

Grades and rigor, as a combo, are highly correlated to how much one's parents can pay for their house.  [/quote]

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