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by frognumber 1432 days ago
It's 43%. You can do a web search. It came up in legal discovery for a perfectly reasonable discrimination law suit.

It distorts things a lot.

* Coveted non-ALDC slots are that much more limited and exclusive. Harvard looks harder to get into.

* Since close to half of the white slots are pre-stuffed, that makes the remaining ones that much harder to get into. That, in turn, leads to extreme affirmative action and no slots for Asians.

... and so on.