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Here's another chart which I think is evidence in the direction of other major universities [1] engaging in a similar extent of affirmative action: https://cdn.
by cato_the_elder 4y ago
Here's another chart which I think is evidence in the direction of other major universities [1] engaging in a similar extent of affirmative action: https://cdn.static-economist.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/original-size/images/2015/09/articles/body/20151003_FBC019.png https://cdn.static-economist.com/sites/default/files/imageca...
The comparison with Caltech (besides the population of college-aged Asisan-Amercians) is because in California, due to Proposition 209 [2], public universities are legally prohibited from using direct racial criteria in admissions.
[1]: Brown, Yale, Penn, Dartmouth, Cornell, Princeton, and Columbia
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1996_California_Proposition_209 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1996_California_Proposition_20...