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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So no one thinks that checking off african american had any effect on this?[/quote]

Of course it did. It would never have happened otherwise.[/quote]Silly rabbit.  Is that you Paleo?[/quote]

I don't know who Paleo is. But are you really suggesting that minority status doesn't affect admissions chances? [/quote]My point is that posters like you are always fixated on the ONE who gets in and present this argument that there is this flood of African American students who are unqualified and accepted for admission.  It is untrue and a blatant lie.  The stats bear this out and so does some of this thread.

While minority status with good/excellent grades can play a role with colleges who want a diversified environment, the same application is applied to legacy, sports, music, science, literary, etc.  MIT, for example, wants to fill some seats in their Global Language program.  So, someone with strengths might get that seat (I know an American minority who is passionate in languages and speaks two critical and one Romance) as their language proficiency changes their "status."

No matter how you spin it, African-Americans are not the majority (other than HBCUs) in the Ivys and their representation is low in single digits.  This is why I take exception with the attempts of some to vilify this young woman because she has applied to all 8 Ivys or because she may or may not have gotten application assistance.  It's trivial.

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