Another thread about ethnicity and college admissions

Applying to College
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<p>My friend and I went on to the decision threads of Dartmouth, Cornell and UPenn ED.</p>

<p>We played a game to guess each applicant's ethnicity by simply looking at his/her standardized scores (SAT,ACT) and then their respective decisions. For example, we would just see an applicant with the SAT score of 2300 rejected from Dartmouth and guess "Asian."</p>

<p>We had three groups to choose from : White, Asian, Black/Hispanic (grouped the URMs together)</p>

<p>and guess what? out of exactly 100 applicants we looked at, we correctly guessed the ethnicities of 84 applicants. 84% accuracy. Amazing no? Just the SAT/ACT and their ethnicity. </p>

<p>You guys should try as well. You'll be surprised at how predictable it is. </p>

<p>I'm not trying to bash AA though. Just got really annoyed at this one poster on this forum who was going on about how race doesn't affect admissions at all and that the "nerdy" Asians and Whites are simply trying to blame others. </p>

<p>What do you think?</p>

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<p>This is gonna be a long thread…</p>

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<p>Can you be more specific? Of course URMs have an easier time getting into colleges…</p>

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<p>There were many high stats Hispanic candidates rejected at Dartmouth. Hispanic is not the boost being black is.</p>