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Re:Asian American Discrimination in Harvard Admissions [pdf] by MiroF on Saturday April 25, 2020 @10:22AM (#22978287)
> most affirmative action admits come from very wealthy families

You can link a source here, as I'm skeptical that this is actually true. That said, many minority students at elite institutions were already attending elite high schools on scholarship - so there is a kernel of truth there.

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Re:Asian American Discrimination in Harvard Admissions [pdf] by frog_squid on Saturday April 25, 2020 @06:49PM (#22982323)
Yes, in Thomas Sowell's Affirmative Action Around the World

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affirmative_Action_Around_the_...

"They tend to benefit primarily the most fortunate among the preferred group (e.g. black millionaires), often to the detriment of the least fortunate among the non-preferred groups (e.g. poor whites)"

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Re:Asian American Discrimination in Harvard Admissions [pdf] by MiroF on Sunday April 26, 2020 @12:58PM (#22988423)
Thomas Sowell is far from an objective observer here. If this is a true claim, then I'd like to see a stat thrown out.

If we're just comparing anecdotes, as someone who attended one of these "elite" universities, this didn't seem to be the case at all.

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