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by IvyAdmisions 2919 days ago
The asians will still get rejected. They're not rejected for racial reasons. They're rejected because they submit uninspiring, cookie cutter applications en masse. This may be because of something in the asian culture. That's outside my expertise.
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There is a natural follow-up question: why might other races get rejected at high rates, albeit not for racial reasons (similar to your point)? I think there are questions that many people simply don't want the answers to.
socioeconomic reasons
Not touching that!
but asians are over represented at harvard...
And they'd be WAAAAAY more overrepresented if the "Great Academics, Boring eveything else" applicants got in.