<p>the most used affirmative action program at harvard is legacies </p>
<p>so I would tend to agree</p>
<p>This is probably one of the most ignorant statements I’ve ever seen on this site. Your premise that minority students admitted to Harvard College are less intelligent/capable than the racial majority fails miserably. Seriously.</p>
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<p>An average IQ of 130 in 2003 is really high. I don’t know the exact admit rates between 1999-2003, but they were probably in the solid teens. IQ of 130 is top 2.3%. Even if you assume Harvard admissions hand picks the highest IQ students (both intentionally and successfully), for there to be affirmative action, the IQ of the applicant pool would be in the above ~85%ile (2.3/15)</p>
<p>(The assumption that the distribution of IQ among applicants is perfectly flat is pretty bad, but it’s all I have).</p>
<p>To say that the top 15% in IQ apply to Harvard (in equal proportion) implies a pretty high correlation between GPA/talents & IQ. If anything, 130 seems unusually high.</p>
<p>“This is probably one of the most ignorant statements I’ve ever seen on this site. Your premise that minority students admitted to Harvard College are less intelligent/capable than the racial majority fails miserably. Seriously.”</p>
<p>You’re right, ixington, we should report this to the NAACP and teach those ignorant kids a lesson. :D</p>
<p>Why are legacy students CLEARLY dumber than average? I’ve always wondered that. Considering that they should have good genes, and that in my experience, education wears off onto children. Better-educated parents tend to provide a more education-oriented and knowledge-filled (in terms mostly of vocabulary and sentence structure) household than more poorly educated parents, no?</p>
<p>Ye, legacy students are normally smarter kids, I completely agree with Lirazel.</p>
<p>@tutydau 'You’re right, ixington, we should report this to the NAACP and teach those ignorant kids a lesson. "</p>
<p>What are you implying tutydau; that there’s a difference in the IQs of African American students admitted to Harvard and those of other races? </p>
<p>Did you know that ANOVA on IQ by race has already been performed for Harvard Students? There is no statistical difference. When a school selects from the cream of the crop, bias from racial selectivity tends to disappear. Every student at the top is more or less equal, to the point that a Mantel-H</p>
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<p>What published source are you referring to?</p>
<p>@blackxington "What are you implying tutydau; that there’s a difference in the IQs of African American students admitted to Harvard and those of other races? "
??? What the heck is wrong with you ??? </p>
<p>“So you’re an incoming freshman? Better hope I’m not one of your teaching fellows, bigot.”
I think you’re being overly sensitive, chill out bruh. I’m black too!! :(</p>
<p>Ahah, the smiley face threw him off. XD</p>
<p>This article pegs the average IQ of Harvard students at 130. Yippie! I’m smarter then the average Harvard student!</p>
<p>[Harvard</a> Gazette: Creativity tied to mental illness](<a href=“http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2003/10.23/01-creativity.html]Harvard”>The links between creativity, intelligence, and mental illness – Harvard Gazette)</p>
<p>This does make sense, given the average SAT score at Harvard is 1500 - which is my score and my score report places me at the 98% percentile of all test takers - the approximate percentile of 130 on many common IQ tests. </p>
<p>For the record, I’m going to a community college.</p>
<p>Who cares about IQ? It’s all about effort. A well motivated person with an IQ of 120 will go much further in life than someone who is lazy and has an IQ of 150.</p>
<p>I took an IQ test in 4th grade, and I scored a 129. I have a work ethic better than most people, but it could definitely be improved. I have several friends with IQs above 140, and I am right up with them in academic performance.</p>
<p>So skrew Intelligence Quotient</p>
<p>IQ is a dumb measure of intelligence. This thread is also dumb.</p>
<p>^So is this thread “IQ”?</p>
<p>The typical Harvard undergrad doesn’t have a 150 IQ. I’ve heard 130 is around average, meaning half are below 130. Harvard admissions favors the competitive type A personality with high(125-135) IQ, not the type B introvert with the 155 IQ(unless the introvert has taken the time to prepare for tests like USAMO or whatever narrow achievements Harvard favors).</p>
<p>Hard work can only get someone so far. </p>
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Type A personality at Harvard not only competive, they are also compliant; obedient type (that is how they get their perfect resume , they comly with the rules so well …)
The type B introvert tend to be rebellious, creative, quirky … These people probably end up in near by schools like MIT, Tufts, Williams, Amherst, … :)</p>
<p>^WoodrowWilson do you mean to say the average IQ among people is 130? Isn’t 130 two standard deviations above the mean of 100?</p>
<p>EDIT: I see you meant H admits, ok.</p>
<p>A lot of people here are contumelious. </p>
<p>Anyway CalTech, which practices admissions objectively has 2% blacks. Keep in mind they base their admissions mainly on academic achievement. Wouldn’t this suggest that minority students are less qualified than other races?</p>
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<p>No, this would suggest that you need to stop swallowing the poppycock you have been fed on a daily basis and that you need to do some reading. Go find Gould’s Mismeasure of Man, then come back and post on this thread. The idea that one’s intelligence can be measured by one number is absolutely absurd.</p>