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8th August 2017, 12:26 AM | #1 |
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The end is near
http://college.usatoday.com/2017/08/...ss-isnt-white/
OMG I have to do something, The wrong humans are coming. I demand a segregated reservation of us true whites because we are being oppressed. The end is near and the sky is going to fall on our heads. |
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8th August 2017, 05:18 AM | #2 |
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Speaking for yourself, I'm presuming. That isn't the tone of the article at all.
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8th August 2017, 09:18 AM | #3 |
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8th August 2017, 09:30 AM | #4 |
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8th August 2017, 09:32 AM | #5 |
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Wait till Jeff Sessions hears about this travesty.
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8th August 2017, 09:38 AM | #6 |
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8th August 2017, 09:43 AM | #7 |
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Sufficiently advanced Woo is indistinguishable from Parody "There shall be no *poofing* in science" Paul C. Anagnostopoulos Force ***** on reasons back" Ben Franklin |
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8th August 2017, 10:16 AM | #8 |
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8th August 2017, 01:24 PM | #9 |
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Big deal. According to this, Harvard has caps on how many students of a particular group can get in. Better students are turned away due to their race. I guess you could say "yay Harvard" for that?
https://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/25/o...americans.html
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8th August 2017, 01:30 PM | #10 |
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8th August 2017, 01:45 PM | #11 |
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"... So, international students aside, Harvard’s class will be just slightly over 49.2% Caucasian — a significant change from the class of 2020, which was 55.7% Caucasian, according to The Harvard Crimson....."
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8th August 2017, 01:50 PM | #12 |
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8th August 2017, 02:03 PM | #13 |
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Not really seeing the reason for celebration. Harvard does what it's always done and judges its students based on skin color/ethnicity and sets admission goals based on same.
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8th August 2017, 04:35 PM | #14 |
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I am not Asian, but I'm always pleased to see them doing well as a group. I'm starting to think Asians are just better types of humans - kinda like Jews but not so annoying.
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8th August 2017, 05:05 PM | #15 |
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8th August 2017, 09:36 PM | #16 |
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9th August 2017, 10:39 AM | #18 |
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9th August 2017, 10:52 AM | #19 |
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14th August 2017, 07:44 AM | #20 |
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It does seem clear Harvard does indeed judge its applicant pool according to their ethnicity. And to get in as a student of Asian heritage you need perfect or near-perfect SAT scores. I do think that the students they accept are mostly all qualified to go to Harvard. It's just that so are a lot of the students who they don't accept. They had almost 40,000 applicants last year and they accept just a few over 2000, or 1 in 20. Probably (I'm just guessing here) half of the applicant pool are "good enough" to go to Harvard. So only 1 in 10 of those who arguably "deserve" to go there are actually accepted. Maybe it's 1 in 5, but still.
Or, you could get in like Jared Kushner got in. Daddy donates half a million or whatever it was. (It means that other deserving students can get financial aid though, so arguably that's fair too). |
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14th August 2017, 10:37 AM | #21 |
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Do they still do "legacy" admissions? You know, like how GW Bush got into Yale, because his father and grandfather went there and became prominent?
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14th August 2017, 02:41 PM | #22 |
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14th August 2017, 05:04 PM | #23 |
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15th August 2017, 12:02 AM | #24 |
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I've been saying for years now that if you really went to color-blind admission (no affirmative action, no "diversity" effort that functions effectively the same way), then the big winners would not be whites, but Asians. It seems obvious that this year, at least, Harvard let the whites and the Asians compete on a more color-blind playing field. However, given this:
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But how is this really diversity? Asian-Americans account for about 3-4% of Americans; shouldn't they account for a similar percentage of Harvard freshmen? Whites are about 70% of Americans (excluding Hispanics). How is it fostering diversity to have Asian-Americans encountering far more fellow Americans of Asian descent than they will in the workforce and fewer whites? Just kidding; I understand that "diversity" is just a code word for keeping the old affirmative action regime in place. And I think that Asian-Americans probably earned becoming 22.2% (they may have earned more than that) of Harvard's frosh class, and I don't think the administration should do any race balancing. At all. Here it's pretty apparent what they did, and that's why the results are so dramatic. |
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15th August 2017, 11:04 AM | #25 |
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15th August 2017, 01:39 PM | #26 |
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16th August 2017, 10:22 AM | #27 |
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Aren't all Harvard qualified applicants going to be within a very narrow band on an test like the ACT? I assume they will all have a 35 or 36. I'd also assume they could all score over 1500 on the SAT.
Once you have all those highly qualified people in a pool why would you try to further differentiate them based on test scores? Harvard is not a test taking academy. They aren't trying to produce an elite team of multiple choice test taking athletes. It is a university. If they only wanted the best test scores, that is fine, but really the test scores are just a proxy, a gate keeper. If you want to have a university known for producing the best academic writers and thinkers I don't think it is wise to base that decision solely on a bunch of multiple choice questions. |
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