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Re:Feds say Yale discriminates against Asian, white applicants by babesh on Thursday August 13, 2020 @10:06PM (#24152370)
It isn’t quite race blind. It is race blind if you pass the initial bar. After that they take subjective things into account like your essay.
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Re:Feds say Yale discriminates against Asian, white applicants by babesh on Thursday August 13, 2020 @11:21PM (#24152899)
The well known hack for the essay is to emphasize how you grew up poor, disadvantaged, first in family to go to college, escaped war, etc... Apparently helpful both for college and medical school.
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