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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]But, this was manufactured and untrue. In the year before SC ruling, the large majority of T20 admits were white and Asian. Not many URMs. Students for Fair Admissions and similar lobby groups promoted this false narrative to advance an anti AA agenda. Yes, many kids got rejected. They still do. Many rejected kids were white and Asian. They still are. But, they are and were bith over-represented in T20 student bodies. 
Look at the graduating classes for these schools. Go to their campuses. See for yourself. The students there are all pre SC ruling. They are largely Asian and white.[/quote]

This in inaccurate.  In the past several years, whites have been underrepresented at many elite academic institutions based on percentages of US population, and other groups have been overrepresented using the same metric.  I am not arguing that this should not have happened, just pointing out that it did.
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Wrong. Just Google the demographics of any top school and you will see the majority of students are white or Asian. [/quote]

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DP. This is all super irrelevant. If whites and Asians have better scores then their being “overrepresented” is unimportant.[/quote]

Sigh. You haven't figured out that scores are neither an indication of intelligence nor the major index for admissions. They are one data point among many. This is part of the problem -- people equate high scores with best applicant. It just isn't true and reflects a bias of cultures that put too much emphasis on scores. You really think the kid whose parents made them prep w/ Kumon and AOPS, bump up math, and prep for entrance exams to magnet schools, scored well on tests because they are "smarter" than a kid who did not have those resources and did well but didn't score as high?  White and Asian kids have a higher rate of enrichment resources that URM kids. URM students have equal potential as other over represented groups, yet they are underrepresented on top campuses. Test scores are not a litmus test.[/quote]

This logic has been thrown out with selective schools increasingly requiring standardized tests.  These selective schools have cited studies that show test scores are the best indicator of college performance.  And excluding test scores was detrimental to the most deserving URMs.  All of this has been in the news.  But it doesn’t stop entitlement hogs like the PP from propagating racist tropes against [b]Asian and White parents who value education[/b].  Asian and white kids are not smarter but are better prepared for college admissions.  Parents like the PP with cavalier attitudes to education are not prepared and console themselves and their kids by perpetuating asinine accusations.

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There are many races that "value" education.  Especially those that apply to T20 colleges.

Duh.[/quote]

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