re: College Admissions season

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Get over your damn self and face the fact that the elite college admissions process is elite, extremely elite.

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If you’re white, or Asian, it is.

If you’re a targeted minority, then it’s actually really easy. There aren’t enough qualified minorities and everyone is scrambling to hit their chosen quota.

The Med school entrance data is a beautiful example of that.

The acceptance rate for Asian applicants with an MCAT between 27 and 29 is 20%.

For a black applicant with the same score?

It’s 80%.

Drop out rates are also much higher for black applicants. But that’s a digression, and it’s the result of affirmative action, more than anything else.