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See CalTech for an example of an elite school that has race-blind admissions. As far as I can tell, it hasn't put any pressure on the Ivy's to change. Inciden
by verylongname 8y ago
See CalTech for an example of an elite school that has race-blind admissions. As far as I can tell, it hasn't put any pressure on the Ivy's to change. Incidentally, Caltech's latest class is roughly 50% Asian and about 30% white.
- cycrutchfield 8y agoThere may be some geographic bias there because California’s Asian population is much higher than the US as a whole.
- pc86 8y agoI would be interested to see if there is any bias toward state of residence for a school as widely known and respected as CalTech.
- extra88 8y agoOf course there is. Harvard has a disproportionate number of students from New England, and more specifically Massachusetts, as well. Plenty of smart kids don't want to be too far from home or travel a long way to an unfamiliar environment. As for CalTech's rep, I'm just one person on the East Coast and wasn't a Tech-type student but I forget it exists all the time. If someone asked me to name a West Coast school to compare to MIT, "Stanford" would be all I could think of.
- tomp 8y agoDo you know how much is black? If it's less than 8% (or whetever the US average is), then it's literally "damned if you do, damned if you don't".
- darwin142 8y agoLess than 1%. https://mic.com/articles/7995/caltech-s-shocking-lack-of-diversity-a-microcosm-for-the-united-states#.yv0xPBukD https://mic.com/articles/7995/caltech-s-shocking-lack-of-div... Yet there's 0 manufactured outrage about this?? Maybe the SJWs of Silicon Valley just haven't found out yet.
- Anechoic 8y agoSee CalTech for an example of an elite school that has race-blind admissions This is not true. See http://finance.caltech.edu/Resources/cds http://finance.caltech.edu/Resources/cds (pick any year), Section C7.