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<p>I think the sentence before the one you quoted is truer (“To maintain and enhance this diversity, MIT makes a special effort to recruit and admit highly qualified candidates…”). </p>
<p>I am, actually, perfectly capable of reading what is written on the admissions website. Based on my experience over the past six admissions cycles at CC (and without too much of a confirmation bias, I hope), it does not seem to be an accurate statement.</p>
<p>At any rate, this is not evidence for the original assertion that MIT’s admissions office is “tak[ing] a national population percentage, compar[ing] it to the numbers at MIT and us[ing] that as guidance for admissions.” This is evidence only that MIT makes an effort to recruit students from four specific groups that have been historically underrepresented at MIT, as well as in science and engineering in general. Furthermore, it is unrelated to the original topic of the thread.</p>