<p>three3: I think the referral to census data was meant to help us figure out what percentage of the overall US population is Asian, which is an important fact to put the argument into context. No one is suggesting that MIT (or any school) make admissions decisions based on census data.</p>
<p>To the OP: do you feel sympathy for white males, or black females, or gay Pakistanis, or purple dinosaurs that also don’t get in? If your main complaint is that MIT has too few spaces for the number of students who deserve the opportunities it offers, I will completely agree with you. But I don’t see what on earth race or gender would have to do with that.</p>