What does an ivy league school want in students?

[antonioray]

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What the hell… I didn’t post a thread for an argument…

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<p>haha how naive</p>

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Underrepresented minorities, on AVERAGE (not always, but average) have lower household incomes, are less likely to live in the nation’s top school districts or have the means to send their children to expensive college prep academies, and score lower on standardized tests. In general, basically, they have less access to the trappings of admissions to elite schools because of societal disadvantage.

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<p>Colleges are not admitting entire races of people! They do it on an individual basis. Asians and Caucasians are not completely impervious to societal disadvantages; some Asians do live in poor areas with poor schools and poor whatever else.</p>

<p>But, I’m not going to go there. Most if not all the points that can be made in either direction can be found in the 7 threads of AA discussion.</p>