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Regarding your specific claim regarding Asian Americans, here is one study on that issue: ... Alan

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An interesting set of statistics and observations.

Curiously missing is the number of students turned down despite having higher test scores than others who were admitted. I wonder what the demographic of that population looks like.

Anyway, my thought is omit race from the application and let the chips fall where they may. I seem to recall some element of the military did that with respect to OCS applicants but had to back off because merit didn't produce the desired demographic outcome.

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