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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Harvard argues race is a plus factor that is rarely outcome determinative, but later concedes that race was in fact the decisive factor in the admission of over half of the blacks at the school. Wealthy blacks with no vestiges of the hood have an advantage over poor Asians simply bc of skin color. Ridiculous.[/quote]

There’s never a Harvard undergraduate admissions decision that pits a wealthy black candidate against a poor Asian candidate.  As described, each applicant furthers different institutional objectives and contributes to a different kind of diversity.  And, of course, your description barely scratches the surface of the attributes an admissions committee is taking into account.  In general, the tradeoffs are between candidates that share some attributes.  And the weight of various attributes varies from year to year depending on, among other things, what constellations of attributes are rare or common in that class’s applicant pool.

That’s before we get to the question of whether even a wealthy African American experiences disadvantages that a poor Asian American does not.  Or why you don’t seem equally outraged that a rich Asian American has an advantage over a poor Asian American.  Honestly, you (like SFFA) seem more concerned with decreasing the number of African Americans in elite universities than with increasing the number of Asian Americans from first gen or low SES backgrounds.  [/quote]

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