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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So title says it all - which colleges practice "race-blind" admissions?  Which are best for asian americans or smart but unhooked kids of any race to apply to?
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I don't have a link, but I did see a study that showed that it's not so much that colleges are looking at race, as that they also need students to major in all the departments at the school.  So, it is possible to find a different distribution of kids who want to major in STEM as opposed to more liberal artsy type majors. Harvard has tenured professors in all of its departments, so it needs to accept students who are likely to choose a variety of majors to keep all those professors earning their pay.

I don't think Harvard asks applicants what major they are interested in, but at schools that do require students to choose in advance, they found that there were different distributions of personal characteristics of students choosing different majors. Kids who chose majors that fewer kids like them were applying for had a better chance of success in relation to number of like applicants than kids who chose a major in which they shared personal characteristics with most of the other applicants.

For example, a higher percentage of males get accepted at many small liberal arts schools compared to the number of male applicants than females compared to female applicants. At some schools there are more spaces available in the history or poli sci departments than in the engineering departments. 
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