the truth about ivies and elite schools

[Hunt]

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What would happen if all those white students who assert that racism is still a “major problem” and who approve of affirmative action as one remedy followed their beliefs and did not apply to selective colleges such as Williams, Wesleyan, Boulder and U.Va.? How would that alter the demographics of elite campuses?

Maybe the schools would fill up with full-pay internationals from Asia. More likely, there would be enough white and Asian students who aren’t strong liberals to make up the difference. It would have no impact at all on URMs, because there already aren’t enough URMs with minimum stats for those selective colleges–those colleges are already admitting URMs with stats substantially lower than average in order to get the relatively low percentage of URMs they have now.</p>