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by zuzu89 1073 days ago
this decision is not motivated by merit, it's entirely motivated by race.

and they have no intentions of using a merit based approach for applicants because that would result in an even more white and asian dominant student pool.

without the legacy pool they now have more wiggle room to juice their "merit-based" approach so that they can admit more blacks without getting busted for illegal affirmative action.