<p>Bubbles,</p>
<p>Harvard’s acceptance rate is about 5%. There are scads if 2400/4.0 applicants if every race and ethnic group who don’t make the cut. To assume that any one particular group is harder hit than another is foolish.</p>
<p>I doubt Harvard rejects as many 4.0/2400 URMs percentage wise as they do ORMs</p>
<p>I’ve posted this somewhere else, and sourced it to an adcom member who was willing to go on the record about this. </p>
<p>Kara Miller, a reader for Yale applications states that Asians are at a disadvantage. According to her words, </p>
<p>“A few years ago, however, when I worked as a reader for Yale’s Office of Undergraduate Admissions, it became immediately clear to me that Asians - who constitute 5 percent of the US population - faced an uphill slog. They tended to get excellent scores, take advantage of AP offerings, and shine in extracurricular activities.”</p>
<p>I know a lot of people’s scores approximately, mostly because I’ve asked them how they did when they act all nervous about it. I know where a lot of people are accepted too. They post it on Facebook, just like I am. I guess we talk about college more than most here?</p>