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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Here is a simple way to fix this. Harvard first sets a floor on what it will take to be considered "qualified" to attend Harvard. They can set this floor however they like, but it has to be the same for all races. Then have a third party firm, anonymize ALL Applications. They read through the application and remove anything that would help identify the race of the applicant, including zipcode. They also toss out any application that does not meet the floor.

They then forward the apps to Harvard. Harvard can use any criteria it wants to pick its class. They assign ranks to all their applicants. and pick the top 2000. After this is done, only the URM applicant pool (but not names) is revealed to them. So they will know that applicant #31938 is black from North Dakota. and 20,987 is Hispanic from Texas.

Now lets say that the resulting class is 2% black and they want to increase that to 6%.  They now have a choice.

Eject one non URM applicant out of the pool and get one URM in or balance between one URM and another.  They don't know who they are ejecting. They only know their ranking in the pool. They stop when their diversity goal is reached.

That should be the final admitted class. [/quote]

I think the deal is that URM stats are so much lower that if you did this, you would end up with very few in the pool.  [/quote]

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