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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why not let the market handle this at this point?  If Caltech is better at picking students than Harvard, than over time, Harvard will start doing what Caltech is doing.  After all, Harvard wants successful alum as much as Caltech does, right?  They want that magic combination of big donors and big names in academia and politics and science, right?  So, if Caltech's way (of not giving any leg up to students from disadvantaged group) is better at predicting those outcomes, then it will win out.  If it isn't, then forcing Harvard to do it their way is forcing Harvard to pick a set of students that isn't as good as what it could have picked with its more "holistic" view.  Personally, I'm betting the more holistic view is the better bet.  Because I'd rather have an URM student with 50 fewer SAT points because he/she didn't take the prep class but a much greater sense of the real world than yet another white or Asian kid who took Kaplan and Kumon and hasn't dealt with any real adversity in life.  But let's let the market decide.  now we have an experiment out there in Caltech, so let's see what happens.[/quote]CalTech is dedicated to the sciences.  Not everyone wants to be one or go to CalTech.

I also agree that the holistic view is the better bet overall for everyone.  Nobody wants a room full of Stepford kids.[/quote]

According to that report, something like 30% of the admitted kids are legacy.  Talk about Stepford.  [/quote]30% of Asian or 30% of white?[/quote]

Sorry, should say 30% of legacy application are admitted.  Total population of undergrad is made up of 12 to 13% legacy. Doesn't break it down by race that I see.

http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2011/5/11/admissions-fitzsimmons-legacy-legacies/[/quote]

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