Advantage to be a URM?

Mikalye
Sun, 02 Oct 2011 22:22:32 +0000

Also the hypothetical is completely false. The idea that there might be two candidates similar in almost every characteristic but for race, is madness, and therefore any attempt to calculate a value to assign to any possible advantage is also madness . I have interviewed students for many years, and I cannot recall any two students who were easily comparable directly like that, in that they participated in the same things and had broadly the same interests. Doesn’t really happen.

Nor is it meaningful, in that it cannot affect any decisions that any applicant might take. There is nobody here who can alter their race. You simply apply and you get in, or do not get in. There is nothing to see or do here.