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<p>You need to up your critical reading skills, 10% of admitted students were latino, they said nothing about their admit rate and don’t separate applicants by race so they have no idea how many applied or their acceptance rate.</p>
<p>At Harvard there will be much less of a discrepancy in rates because Harvard can choose among the best of all backgrounds. But at most schools the acceptance rate gap is less than 7% between urm and the general student body (10% vs 17%) and this is among urms who choose to apply. </p>
<p>The advantage is very much over stated. Even at WashU, which enrolls a student body that is 10% black and surely doesn’t rank high on the minority pecking order, the acceptance rate was actually LOWER for black students (16.5% vs 22%)</p>
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<p>So no, minorities can’t be blamed for whatever the outcome of your admission.</p>