<p>Northstarmom also said,</p>
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<blockquote> <p>If it is the case (and I don't know whether it is), that may be because there are more applicants from the poor immigrant category than there are from the URM category. I would imagine, too, that billionaire's kids, extraordinary athletes, and prodigy french horn players also would get preference over poor immigrants' kids if poor immigrants' kids are in abundance while applicants in the other categories are not. So is the world of elite college admissions. <<</p> </blockquote>
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<p>The world of elite college admissions is CHANGING. What you have just said, produces mediocrity, especially if the students are all middle and upper class, admitted with preferential treatment. That's how Harvard admitted its predominately WASP students, pre WW II, who came from the upper economic classes. President Conant called for a change during the early 1900s in this policy by requiring the SAT tests and admissions based on academic excellence. Hence, Harvard now is 30% Jews (2.5% of the American population), and 18% Asian American (4% of the American population), admitted without any racial or ethnic group preferences. In fact, Asian Americans, are NON-PREFERRED as opposed to blacks who are PREFFERRED, simply because not enough of the blacks can meet the standards that the rest of the class is admitted with. Therefore Asian Ams are subjected to limiting de facto quotas because they are overrreprensented and OVERQUALIFIED, whereas blacks are underrpresented because they are UNDERQUALIFIED. Again, it is all relative.</p>