Do graduate schools participate in Affirmative Action to the extent as undergrad schools? I am talking about engineering/STEM and the Ivys + SMC
It’s more on citizenship than race, especially in STEM fields which have a lot of international applicants. At Michigan, for example, the standard for a domestic applicant is lower that for an international one. (this is also true for undergrad) Some programs struggle to find US applicants who are qualified, mostly because they either a) want to go to Ivy’s or b) don’t have the theoretical and mathematical backgrounds for some of the highly technical fields and c) many students stop at undergrad or masters level because additional compensation above a masters is insufficient for another 3-4 years of school.
You have asked this question before. I am copying and pasting the earlier answer I gave you.
@kjake2000 Take a look at these tables and you can figure out who your competition really is. (Hint- it is not African-American or Latino students)
https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d15/tables/dt15_318.45.asp?current=yes
No, it’s not the same.