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[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]

To continue the wild generalizations and stereotyping, what about the Asian kids who have come from the same economic background as other you are in the candidates, but who have worked their asses off studying and spending whatever Time they have available on education? Those who go to kaman instead of equally expensive sporting events?  [/quote]

If you have an Asian kid from a socioeconomically disadvantaged background, then they ought to make that known in the application.   That kid with perfect scores does very well.  If you want to make an argument that [b]economic advantage ought to be considered more seriously than race/ethnicity[/b], I'm right there with you.[/quote]

But people would still cry Aff. Action because a disproportionate number of Blacks and Latinos are lower SES.[/quote]

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