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Re:Over 90% of Indian techies in the US are upper-caste Indians by curiousllama on Tuesday September 22, 2020 @06:45PM (#24560886)
Admissions counselors aren't arbitrating a match, they're predicting success and shaping an environment.

Who's going to be more successful: someone tutored, mentored, and cajoled to a 1500 SAT or someone who never had sh*t and got a 1450 cold?

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Re:Over 90% of Indian techies in the US are upper-caste Indians by tomrod on Tuesday September 22, 2020 @07:29PM (#24561245)
Insufficient information to determine an answer.
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Re:Over 90% of Indian techies in the US are upper-caste Indians by tw600040 on Tuesday September 22, 2020 @07:15PM (#24561129)
//Who's going to be more successful: someone tutored, mentored, and cajoled to a 1500 SAT or someone who never had sht and got a 1450 cold?

Yeah, so who should be given gold in olympics? someone who was trained and mentored and finished first or someone who never had sht and ran slower?

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Re:Over 90% of Indian techies in the US are upper-caste Indians by GavinMcG on Tuesday September 22, 2020 @07:19PM (#24561173)
College admissions isn't the finish line of "who is best". It's a starting point for developing potential, and thereafter college still isn't a competition to see who is best.
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Re:Over 90% of Indian techies in the US are upper-caste Indians by stbtrax on Tuesday September 22, 2020 @07:25PM (#24561213)
Your analogy doesn't follow GP's logic. It's more like: do you want to watch olympics where rich kids with sports coaches do mediocre to well, or do you want to watch an Olympics where a state-sponsored scholarship program gives you the best of the best amongst poor/middle-class/rich people because talent is not distributed only amongst the rich.
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