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<p>No there’s not. That only indicates that adcoms prefer the average Hispanic/black profile beyond the quantitative results. Whether (on average) this is because they’re low income, interesting applicants with more life experience, rare and thus favored by adcoms, or are simply black/Hispanic is unclear. You just assume it’s because they’re URM.</p>
<p>^^Yes, okay. I posted after you. </p>
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<p>This is my point. We don’t know WHY the data is skewed in favor of URM. We only know it is. Maybe it’s not the race category that affects these decisions in a holistic application review. Keep in mind that there’s FAR less Hispanics/black that are applying. This means there’s a smaller sample size that’s affected by Law of Large Numbers (so the average URM application COULD be more unique than the average white applicant even if minorities aren’t that much more interesting than whites on average). </p>
<p>They could also be self-selecting in their life experiences/extracurriculars because unmotivated URM’s wouldn’t bother applying.</p>