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<blockquote> <p>First, they placed him into a "support" program because of "something in his application" that indicated that he needed support.>></p> </blockquote>
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<p>Could the "something" have been his URM status which prevented adcoms from even looking at other parts of his apps to discover that he belonged to the Honors program? </p>
<p>In another post, Norcalguy attributes the higher rate of URM graduation at some Ivies to their grade inflation. But surely, that benefits ALL other students, not just URMs, unless he wants to prove that profs deliberately award higher grades to URMs? </p>
<p>Reading this thread in conjunction with the article on U of Arizona in yesterday NYT (Survival of the Fittest), one can see why URMs do so much better at Ivies and not so well at large state universities. At the latter, they just do not get the support they need to do well.</p>