Ethnicity and chances

edujunky
Tue, 11 Dec 2012 21:52:31 +0000

Recent conversation on etnicity and how it affects an individuals chances of admission to a BS. Now the conversation was just talking about the fairness of it, but do you really think that a student has a better chance if they are of an URM? Let us put 2 scenarios into the question, scenario x is a student who is one of the well qualified students that flows into the admissions admissions office, does x, being an URM, have a better chance against other qualified students of a ORM? And now suppose scenario y, is a student who is an URM, but is a mediocre applicant that could still possibly get in but is not the well qualified student most of them, does person y have a better chance of admission againsta well qualified ORM. And now I have just one more thing to say, how big does ethnicity play a role(though this might be explained through your answers to the scenarios).