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<p>And what you don’t understand is that blacks and Hispanics have not reached “a certain point.” The number of institutions in the country that seek “diversity” far outnumbers “less than ten.” With less than 4,903 2100+/2400 scoring blacks and Hispanics in the country, there are simply not enough for all of those schools to have a “satisfactory” amount of black and Hispanic incoming freshmen.</p>
<p>You think “less than ten” schools can take all of those (less than) 4,903 blacks and Hispanics. Sure, they could. But do they? Let’s take a look at three schools I’m sure you’ll agree are “elite.”</p>
<p>[285</a> black and Hispanic freshmen entered Harvard](<a href=“http://www.provost.harvard.edu/institutional_research/CDS_2011-2012_Final.pdf]285”>http://www.provost.harvard.edu/institutional_research/CDS_2011-2012_Final.pdf) in 2011-2012. [202</a> black and Hispanic freshmen entered Princeton](<a href=“http://registrar.princeton.edu/university_enrollment_sta/common_cds2012.pdf]202”>http://registrar.princeton.edu/university_enrollment_sta/common_cds2012.pdf) in 2011-2012. [240</a> black and Hispanic freshmen entered Yale](<a href=“http://oir.yale.edu/node/738/attachment]240”>http://oir.yale.edu/node/738/attachment) in 2011-2012.</p>
<p>Uh oh, 202-285 is quite a bit less than 490. That’s OK, I’m sure you’ll wave your hands, scream “I can’t be wrong!” and come up with some new excuse. No problem. Let’s consider some other “elites.”</p>
<p>[402</a> black and Hispanic freshmen entered Stanford](<a href=“Stanford Common Data Set | University Communications”>Stanford Common Data Set | University Communications) in 2011-2012. [262</a> black and Hispanic freshmen entered Brown](<a href=“Office of Institutional Research | Brown University”>Office of Institutional Research | Brown University) in 2011-2012. [162</a> black and Hispanic freshmen entered Dartmouth](<a href=“http://www.dartmouth.edu/~oir/pdfs/cds2011_2012_estimated.pdf]162”>http://www.dartmouth.edu/~oir/pdfs/cds2011_2012_estimated.pdf) in 2011-2012. And we’ll finish with [url=<a href=“MIT Institutional Research”>MIT Institutional Research]MIT[/url</a>], which had 243 black and Hispanic freshmen enter in 2011-2012.</p>
<p>Columbia doesn’t have an easily accessible common data set, so we’ll stop with these seven (less than ten) schools. Uh oh. In only one of those schools did the number even come close to 490, and that’s because of these seven schools, Stanford admits the largest incoming class. In the other schools, they ranged from 162 to 285. So, no, “less than ten schools” are not taking 4,903 high scoring blacks and Hispanics.</p>
<p>Oh, but you protest, they could, and that means “[you] can’t be wrong!” Well, you are wrong. Those (less than) 4,903 students are getting spread over a far larger number of schools than seven research universities. They are getting spread out over at least 50 top schools, and consequently, all of these schools have to admit students from outside the 4,903 group.</p>
<p>But 50 schools can easily admit “enough” Asians from 17,732 2100+/2400 scoring Asians. They do not have to go outside that group to ensure that they have “enough.” They have to for blacks and Hispanics, because 4,903 is too few.</p>
<p>Again, the SAT is not everything, nor should it be. That you have to bring this up even though I’ve disclaimed it at least five times shows how desperate you are to cling on to your illusion that there’s no gap at the top. The point is that selective schools do not have to admit lower-scoring Asians to have “enough” of them, but they do for blacks and Hispanics. 4,903 is not enough for 50 schools to have even 100 black and Hispanic freshmen, and we’ve seen that even with a relatively small class size, as with Dartmouth, they still want close to 200 black and Hispanics to come in.</p>