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SubjectiveCoconut t1_iu39t39 wrote

Careful, this isn't painting the proper picture, because you don't see where the rest of those top students go. Are there more Asians in the top 100 colleges in the US? I believe so.

The URM are not being cut slack and let in because they're URM. There are just a lot of qualified kids. You could admit three times as many without lowering standards. And that means you can afford to optimize for diversity, to make the experience more enriching for the kids that attend. (Also at these colleges URMs are often from other countries where they were the top students. They're not all American in this chart.)

What you can disagree with is whether attending a diverse college (on ethnicity) is more enriching than otherwise. (I personally think it is more enriching to have that sort of diversity, but I can see the other pov)

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EnjoysYelling t1_iu3fxh6 wrote

Many of the other top 100 colleges have similar patterns of admissions.

I would wager that nearly all of them admit proportionately fewer “overrepresented students” relative to performance.

All of these schools are attempting to do what the elite colleges do, for nearly the same reasons.

This means that nearly all of these schools are turning down qualified students based on their ethnicity, for the sake of admitting similarly or less qualified students of other ethnicities.

You can call this practice whatever you want, but the practice is not really much different

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