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"For example, recruited athletes, legacies, and dean’s interest list applicants are all over 68% white" 75% of the US population is white, so it sounds like th

• jgwil2 3y ago
  The claim was made about the applicant pool, not the general population. The white population skews considerably older than other groups.
• kemayo 3y ago
  You're looking at a misleading data point on two levels. First, note that the 75.5% figure in that table includes Hispanic/Latino people, which not all sources will -- importantly the study I was quoting doesn't include these under "white", so we can't compare those numbers. There's a different row in your table that excludes those to get 58.9% white. This alone gets us back to the ALDC group being disproportionately white. Second, it doesn't matter if 75% of the US population is white, but rather what percentage of the college-admission aged US population is white. (Not that people outside of the 17-23ish bracket don't apply to Harvard's undergraduate program, but I suspect that they do so in insignificant numbers.) Here's a source that breaks out US racial demographics by age: https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d21/tables/dt21_101.20.asp https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d21/tables/dt21_101.20.a... It says that in 2021 amongst 18-24 year olds, 52.8% were white. Thus the ALDC group is even more disproportionately white than the whole-population number would make you think.