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I almost made that same mistake. I was thinking "are there even 20 racial groups"? Acceptance rate at Harvard is 5.9% for instance. So you get almost 20x appli
by runamok 14y ago
I almost made that same mistake. I was thinking "are there even 20 racial groups"?
Acceptance rate at Harvard is 5.9% for instance. So you get almost 20x applicants than you can accept.
- argonaut 14y agoActually I'm talking about medical schools, which often have admit rates below 5%. Taking the top 5% of every ethnic group is the same as taking 5% of the entire applicant population, so this only applies to med schools with admit rates below 5%. I'm not talking about undergrad.
- pc86 14y ago> Taking the top 5% of every ethnic group is the same as taking 5% of the entire applicant population Except you get an entirely different applicant pool; if the numbers from the article are accurate, the former gives you far fewer Asians and Whites and far more African Americans and Hispanics than the latter.