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[quote=Anonymous]Holistic is a business and legal strategy. By making things opaque under holistic and test optional, colleges get an overwhelming surplus of applicants to choose from to achieve their demographic and financial goals and they improve their selectivity rankings. From a business standpoint it makes sense not to discourage kids you don’t want from applying. They do not care about your kids.

From a legal strategy, holistic is the only way to achieve racial diversity while claiming not to give extra points for race. The Supreme Court ruling specifically provided a loophole that schools could consider race in a the broader context of an application. If you look at any of the measures, GPA, number of AP courses taken with a score of 4 or 5, SAT, state testing, leadership roles in academic or sports teams, elected positions etc etc you will see it doesn’t line up even close to some of the schools admit demographics. So you either allow back doors to race through holistic admissions r end up with top schools being overwhelmingly Asian and white.[/quote]

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