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That link shows that (presumably in order to meet diversity targets) black applicants with a GPA of 3.2-3.39 had nearly the same acceptance rate as Asian applic
by AnthonyMouse 2y ago
That link shows that (presumably in order to meet diversity targets) black applicants with a GPA of 3.2-3.39 had nearly the same acceptance rate as Asian applicants with a 3.6-3.79 GPA. 0.4 points is an entire standard deviation for GPA.
- wredcoll 2y agoOk? So what? The goal of this process isn't to find the "best" people to admit, it's select between a group of people who are already qualified. Someone else getting picked instead of you sucks regardless of the reason and there's always going to be an imperfect system doing the picking.
- AnthonyMouse 2y ago> The goal of this process isn't to find the "best" people to admit That is exactly the goal of this process. Otherwise why does someone with a 4.0 GPA have any better chance than someone with a 3.2 GPA? If all you cared about was "qualified" then there would be some minimum threshold and candidates above that threshold would be chosen at random. > there's always going to be an imperfect system doing the picking. "Perfection is impossible" doesn't mean that every imperfect alternative is equally bad.