Black and hispanics have an advantage?

mifune
Tue, 05 Jan 2010 20:51:36 +0000

Yes minorities are without question accepted at a rate far higher than that of Asian and white students despite having far lower objective statistics as a collective body.

http://www.asianam.org/college_admission_officers.htm

Slakedlime is referring to this thread: http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/yale-university/830524-quadruplets-admitted-yale.html

I believe we had a nice enlightening coversation on the inherent prejudice in such a policy. Yet, when one notices this, one’s completely noble intentions are immediately construed as bigotry.



For example, I think Dartmouth extended its deadline to January 21st for URMs.



I responded to this just a few minutes ago in the Yale thread:

“…Dartmouth College extended its application deadline to January 21 for under-represented minorities. Could you possibly imagine the public outcry if the deadline was extended exclusively to white and Asian students? Yet when it is extended for minorities what is the reaction? Absolutely nothing.”