No one seemed to have noticed this. But according to http://now.dartmouth.edu/2015/05/1115-accept-offer-join-class-2019 and http://www.dartmouth.edu/~oir/pdfs/cds_2014_2015.pdf, there’s been a dramatic increase in the percentages of Asians among the freshman class of Dartmouth from last year to this year.
It’s still early to speculate, but could it be that all the publicities surrounding the Harvard lawsuits did produce some kind of effect on Ivy League admissions? I know Dartmouth over the years admitted the lowest number of Asians among all the Ivies, maybe they are just trying to position themselves going forward just in case?
I don’t know enough about Dartmouth to know if this is unusual…might 2014 have been an unusually low year an now 2015 is back to regular?
If you look at the last 5 years of common data set, Asian % range from 13.1% to 15.3% at Dartmouth.
It could also mean that a higher than usual percentage of Asian students decided to matriculate. Dartmouth does not mention how many Asians were among the 2,120 students who were offered admission this year. The numbers are insufficient to make any meaningful conclusion.
Good, they deserve it.
It’s politically incorrect, but I feel sorry for the asian kids at my old high school (near the one I graduated). These kids are legitimately more smart and tact and put together than URM’s, and they are sentenced to the state flagship because of AA.
Based on some of the writing skills of people making introductions to the D c/o 19 facebook page, I really wish some of them had gotten in.