<p>Thanks, bluedevilmike, for providing sources in posts 10 and 11 for your assertion in post 8 that Asians face a penalty of 75 SAT points relative to whites. Looking at these sources, it appears that the penalty is due to preferences given to minorities, not due to a preference given to whites. Do away with the preferences for minorities, and the available spaces would shift largely to Asians. It is not clear to me why Asians would be the predominant beneficiaries, but in any event it seems clear that these sources do not say that whites are preferred over Asians in the application process.</p>