<p>Tyler I never said anything about admit rates explicitly, but did imply that there Latinos and African-Americans probably were accepted at a higher clip than the the one at which they applied (for example maybe 8% of applicants were African-American but they accounted for 10% of the incoming class)</p>
<p>And here’s some food for thought… ([College</a> Admission Officers](<a href=“http://www.asianam.org/college_admission_officers.htm]College”>College Admission Officers | Asian American Politics))
College Acceptance Rates (2005)<br>
Overall Acceptance Rate Black Acceptance Rate % Difference
Harvard University 10.0% 16.7% + 67.0%
MIT 15.9% 31.6% + 98.7%
Brown 16.6% 26.3% + 58.4%
Penn 21.2% 30.1% + 42.0%
Georgetown 22.0% 30.7% + 39.5%
The advantage is OVERSTATED? No, my friend it is understated because I, like most others, was not aware of some of the raw data. Look at the overall acceptance rate at MIT and the black acceptance rate (quite a discrepancy if you ask me). Blacks were accepted at nearly twice the rate of the applicant pool overall. What gives?</p>
<p>And some more (<a href=“http://opr.princeton.edu/faculty/tje/espenshadessqptii.pdf[/url]”>http://opr.princeton.edu/faculty/tje/espenshadessqptii.pdf</a>)
A 2005 study by Princeton sociologists Thomas J. Espenshade and Chang Y. Chung compared the effects of affirmative action on racial and special groups at three highly selective private research universities. The data from the study represent admissions disadvantage and advantage in terms of SAT points (on the old 1600-point scale):</p>
<pre><code>* Blacks: +230
- Hispanics: +185
- Asians: –50
- Recruited athletes: +200
- Legacies (children of alumni): +160
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<p>So Tyler, I feel my argument has weight and your questioning my literacy was a d.o.u.c.h.e. move</p>