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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The holistic admissions claim is a fallacy.
Asian Americans aren't idiots, we all know that it's not just grades it's also extracurricular activities.

The problem is when a valedictorian with excellent extracurriculars is passed up just because of the color of his skin because it is deemed there is too many of his race in that school. So you can take your "holistic" admissions and shove it. [/quote]

I think many people just don't have a good grasp of the numbers involved in admissions to elite colleges/universities. Consider this:

There are 24,000 high schools in the US, so presumably at least that many valedictorians.

Harvard accepted just 1,944 students for the 2014-2015 school year (1,659 enrolled).

Let's say that Harvard changes it's admissions process so that ONLY students who were valedictorians of their high school can be admitted. If one valedictorian from each of 24,000 U.S. high schools then applied to Harvard, only 8% of them would be admitted. 92% would be rejected.[/quote]

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