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Re:Harvard University Won’t Require SAT, ACT for Admissions ... by usaar333 on Tuesday June 16, 2020 @09:55AM (#23539144)
Let's not exaggerate things. Comparing UC or Caltech is probably best (granted they use less controversial socioeconomic factors). Caltech is 43% Asian American vs 27% at MIT. Note that the race-neutral number is somewhere in between (Asians disproportionately yield to schools that don't use racial preferences because they are discriminated against elsewhere)
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Re:Harvard University Won’t Require SAT, ACT for Admissions ... by rayiner on Tuesday June 16, 2020 @10:03AM (#23539243)
The competitive admissions high school I went to (which has an SAT average similar to Ivy League universities) has a completely race/SES-blind admissions system and is now 70% Asian.
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Re:Harvard University Won’t Require SAT, ACT for Admissions ... by usaar333 on Tuesday June 16, 2020 @10:19AM (#23539413)
That's a function of local demographics as well though. Lowell high school in San Francisco has those numbers but that's in part due to (more affluent than average) whites long fleeing the SF public schools.
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Re:Harvard University Won’t Require SAT, ACT for Admissions ... by crimsonalucard5 on Tuesday June 16, 2020 @10:57AM (#23539876)
But whites still are the majority in SF by a huge margin.
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Re:Harvard University Won’t Require SAT, ACT for Admissions ... by usaar333 on Tuesday June 16, 2020 @11:00AM (#23539909)
? Have you ever been to SF? That's not true for the general population and even less true for youth. And the white youth that are there tend to go to private schools

https://priceonomics.com/where-are-all-the-white-people-in-s....

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Re:Harvard University Won’t Require SAT, ACT for Admissions ... by crimsonalucard5 on Tuesday June 16, 2020 @11:08AM (#23540007)
I live in SF, i grew up in the bay.

https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Demographics_of_San_Francisco#:~....

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Re:Harvard University Won’t Require SAT, ACT for Admissions ... by crimsonalucard5 on Tuesday June 16, 2020 @10:53AM (#23539807)
>Asians disproportionately yield to schools

No Asians go big or go home. They yield to all schools that are prestigious regardless of race-neutrality because all of these school (on the surface) appear to be race neutral.

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