<p>Hard to believe that a kid accepted to Yale didn’t have equivalent qualifications that could have gotten him accepted at Princeton, had he met some institutional need that Princeton had that year. But he didn’t fit the bill as someone that Princeton needed. </p>
<p>The DOE report will be interesting. Colleges are looking for diversity and do have needs and niches that need filling–and I believe that they can use race as a factor in their deliberations, as long as it does not constitute a quota. Do colleges use a cap on the % of Asians in any one class (for example, not more than 20%)? If so, is that a quota?</p>