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by MagnumOpus 2106 days ago
Agreed. Any company that can pay six figure salaries for graduate wants to be able to choose a combination of outstanding smarts and grit. Getting into an Ivy League CS program demonstrates that - and any demographic issues are provably due to the pipeline.

Exchanging that filter for hiring straight out of school but only taking, say, people with top 5% of SAT results (1420) would also demonstrate it, but it would result in even more stark over-representation of Asians (about 20% of them meet the cutoff) and under-representation of Blacks (only 1% of them meet the cutoff).