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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's such a big leg up so this is mind boggling.[/quote]

It might not be as mind boggling if the applicant pool demographics were known. Another interesting data point would be the percentage of applicants of each race rejected from each school.[/quote]

You can see this for black students for some schools here. But I still don't get why it matters:

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[/quote] So african americans are 13.3% of the population but almost all of the schools on this chart, they represent  a greater percentage of admitted students... [/quote]

Black applicants = American and foreign. Particularly in high ranking schools, you will see more foreign born blacks. They generally come from wealthy more educated families. They typically also did not grow up in the US schools and have first hand experience living their entire lives under a white supremacist government.[/quote]

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