<p>@wlpoppa Why do you insist on claiming that White applicants are superior to URMs and especially Asian American applicants to W&L given that you have stated in your prior post #39 that you do not have any data to suggest that this is the case. </p>
<p>Yet you disregard the hard admission rate data which clearly shows that White Applicants are admitted at a rate nearly 4 times that of URMs, 35% vs 9%, respectively.</p>
<p>Yes, everything you mention are factors in the admission decision which is applicable to ALL Applicants. But in order to come to the conclusion that the above admission rate disparity is not discriminatory, you must conclude that White Applicants are Superior to URMs. Are you willing to make this claim???</p>
<p>Do you know who are placed on W&L’s wait-list? All students who are not awarded admissions but who are deemed, using your own words, “qualified based upon ALL the factors by admissions” are put on the wait-list. These students are deemed qualified by Admissions to enroll at W&L if there is room available in a freshman class. </p>
<p>Given the lack of ethnic diversity at W&L and W&L has publicly stated that it wants to improve diversity, why then are URM students not selected from the wait-list when in the past about 90 students have come from the wait-list each year??? That is 150+% more than the entire total of all URM students in a freshman class. Got an explanation for this??? </p>
<p>Clearly you are biased toward your child’s school that you can not see the data that is before you or are unwilling to question the irregularity of the admission data. No amount of data will change your mind but to those rational folks who are out there, perhaps enough people interested in fighting discrimination will also speak out so that W&L will stop its discriminatory behavior in the future. </p>
<p>I thought that the W&L community would be up in arms about the admission rate data, but so far all I have seen are apologists who make unfounded statements or ad hominem attacks. I left it to @Hello98 to decide whether to apply to W&L or not based upon the information. I hope he makes the right decision and goes elsewhere for his education, because what I am hearing from you and others at W&L is saddening.</p>