<p>Same to me...</p>
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Looking at the SAT ranges for Chicago and its peer schools (Yale)
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<p>hmmmm..........</p>
<p>I don't know why so many people debate affirmative action... the only piece of the puzzle we don't hold is the hard statistics, which will more than likely be kept hidden away for a long time. But we all have our experiences of knowing a minority with low scores who got into a top university; as a MIT and Caltech reject, the person I was tutoring in math got into Stanford and Columbia... as an engineer. Yes, they might've seen something in him, but the inability to do math would've been a complete turnoff for any engineering school. And, of course, the one easy example of 'proving' affirmative action is a comparison of the numbers of Caltech and MIT - Caltech has 6% black/hispanic students, MIT 20%. The latter practices AA, the former refrains.</p>
<p>If this story were true, it would not surprise me at all. A few years ago, the University of Chicago didn't admit many minorities at all... I think the incoming class of 2010 had something like a 6% hispanic and 4% black composition. This year, these statistics have magically been raised to 9% and 6%, respectively. That's a pretty big jump, no? I expect these numbers to rise in the upcoming years. And in my opinion and personal experiences, the minorities in the class of 2010 are more qualified than the minorities in the class of 2011; on average, of course.</p>
<p>As for admission at Chicago, a better comparison is Stanford. One could hardly say that Stanford's not selective, but compare its SATs and ACTs to Chicago's:</p>
<p>Same ACT scores, leading by 10 points in critical reading, trailing by 20 points in math. People will always say that Chicago isn't selective because of its high admission rate, but this is silly. We just don't have the high number of crap applications that places like Harvard and Stanford get, because who would apply to Chicago for its prestige? Our president is, however, trying to lower our admissions rate, so don't be surprised if it drops to 15-20% in the upcoming years. This will probably have little to no effect on the qualifications of the student body.</p>