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If one can just say base on admittance rate, Caltech practice AA toward women then one shall conclude many colleges in this country practice AA toward asians. Since in general, percentage wise, there are more asians admitted to top universities than other groups. We all know that there is really no advantage to be an asian in admittance to most top universities.
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<p>Your facts are true–Asians in fact face a disadvantage in admittance to most top universities–but your drawn conclusion is utterly fallacious. I suspect that the admissions rate (number applied divided by number accepted) for Asians at any individual top prestigious university may well be lower than that for whites and certainly lower than that for URMs (AA or Latin@). More Asians are admitted to top universities when you consider percentage by population, but this figure is skewed due to the smaller proportion of college-unready Asian students and due to the much smaller population of Asians in the US in absolute numbers; academic achievement is not directly proportional across racial/ethnic groups, or else there would be no point or purpose in affirmative action.</p>
<p>Regarding Caltech, lizzardfire has admitted that she is asking us to trust in the claimed unbias of the Caltech admissions committee. I certainly believe that Caltech does not have a formal AA policy, external or internal, public or private; however, the lack of such a policy is not synonymous with the lack of affirmative action being practiced. As mathmom said, can you assert without hesitation that no one on the admissions committee, when faced with a tough decision between equally meritorious students of differing genders, has thought, “well, we could use more women”? Note that I said equally meritorious (after factoring in passion).</p>