The real problem is the quality of the apps/supps, LoRs, interview and what actually comes across
In the lawsuit, looks like the Asians do better on LoRs and interviews too, the only category they don’t is the personal rating, for some reason, wonder what that is…
“they will not take every bright kid from the Bay Area”
They don’t have to, but they don’t have to take every bright black kid either, but they do.
“And black applicants do not get into all Ivies more often. Maybe you’re referring to some few media darlings.”
Well media darlings is a little harsh, not sure they sought the media, anyway the four black brothers from Ohio who started their app process here on cc all got in to the Harvard Yale, Stanford, etc., the one brother who started the thread even said the ACT for one is a little low but were hope being URM and four brothers would help. They clearly understand the system, and imo should exploit it for all its worth.
I know a lot of Asians in the bay area who are the best stem students in the country and I can’t think of any in a given year that got into all ivies and Stanford and MIT. They didn’t apply to all eight, I’ll grant that, but they best they do is say a Yale, MIT, Stanford accept and a Princeton, Harvard wait-list. They did well of course, but the point is that they cannot get into all like an URM can.