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[quote=Anonymous]Here's Harvard's defense study:
https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/files/diverse-education/files/expert_report_-_2017-12-15_dr._david_card_expert_report_updated_confid_desigs_redacted.pdf

It is a bombshell in a lot of ways. But not about Asians, in my reading, but about athletics and privilege.

Harvard admitted 1,756 US kids to the Class of 2019, with a 6.61 acceptance rate. International kids aren't addressed in the report. Of those, there were:

331 legacies (including 72 double legacies)
180 recruited athletes
44 children of Harvard faculty/employees

That's 31 percent of the admitted students. The number of "special" admits (i.e., super rich kids, children of celebrities, etc.) was redacted. So you can figure basically one-third of the very few American kids to get into Harvard come from those very privileged categories.

Also interesting, the SAT mean was 2242 (on the old 2400-point scale) and the ACT mean was 33. Little lower than I would have thought based on the 25-75th percentile scores. [/quote]

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