how important is it to Stanford to be URM

freezingbeast
Sat, 05 Feb 2011 04:57:30 +0000

I am not going to comment on the issue.
However,the statistics provided in the above post were quite irrelevant.

The question asks for how race effects admissions, not the ethnic composition of those admitted. So the unless you can supplement the ethnic breakdowns of admitted students with those that applied to those schools, then no real conclusions can be reached.

Just a technicality of logic, you’re saying that being an URM applying to Stanford, is "no more important than " URM applying to Harvard or Yale, but that doesn’t answer the question. (You’re only begging the question which then becomes, “how important is being an URM when applying to H or Y”)