Why not? Everyone’s doing it - even Harvard apparently.
That is an exaggeration. The Ivies do have preferences, but the students admitted under those preferences are still well above average nationally, although they are below the "unhooked" admitted students.
I know. was being facetious :-)
Well kind of - I have seen SAT/ACT scores via Navience (from a very affluent NJ SD) for kids that went on to Ivies and let's just say that I could spot the underachieving minority candidates just by looking at those scores with unerring accuracy. That is how much lower they were.
So, no. They were not well above average nationally.
I will concede that they were probably well above average nationally for their demographic, however. These were the children of people with executive level jobs too from what I understand. Not under privileged in the slightest.
Whoever they were, I think that it is wrong to admit based on any criteria other than merit.
I am sure that I will be banned by the Thought Police for this post but so be it.
The truth must be set free.
