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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m not white so I only have a stake in this because I’m curious about the issue.  At highly selective schools, roughly 50% of the student body is engineered to be non-domestic and non-white....URM, Asian, international, etc.  Of the remaining 50% allocating to domestic whites, roughly half are Jewish.  Of the remaining 25% allocated to non-Jewish, domestic whites, half are legacies and its likely another 5-10% are recruited athletes.  So the sixty percent of the country that identify as non-Hispanic whites are fighting for less than 10% of the allotted spaces.  Interesting.[/quote]

Um, no. I'm not checking the accuracy of your numbers, but there's an error in your logic. The 60% that identifies as non-Hispanic whites includes Jewish whites, legacies, and recruited athletes. So, assuming your numbers, the 60% are vying for the 50% of the spots. To figure out what percentage of seats the non-hooked, non-Jewish whites are vying for you'd have to figure out what percentage the non-hooked, non-Jewish are of the total non-Hispanic white 60%. Plus, technically, to be more accurate, you should be looking at the college-eligible, college-age high-school grad non-Hispanic whites, not the general population.[/quote]

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