Minorities have college advantage?

Achilles09
Fri, 21 Jun 2013 04:20:25 +0000

Well that is true. But suppose you have two individuals with extremely similar statistics who apply to the same competitive colleges. Consider one of the applicants to be Black, and the other Asian. Which applicant will be selected? I put all my money on the Black person. URMs have a greater chance of getting into top colleges, even if they might have a lower SAT by about a hundred or two hundred points or a GPA that is half a point less when compared to their Asian and White competitors. If you don’t believe me, look at the threads for the Acceptances/Waitlists/Rejections. They can be found by clicking on one of the Ivy League schools, and there should be a sticky thread for each college about this.