Yup great suggestion. Similar vibe to an essay I recently wrote on PhDs being too easy. The fact is, once you’re in, you’ve got away with the crime. It shouldn’t be possible for a mediocre IQ individual to make it through university, even if they get illegally vaulted past the admissions process
The race category is a self declaration. Meaning if a person is only 1/8 black, they can still claim to be black. I think that's what's happening. SAT scores of 1480 is exceedingly rare and this person can probably go to Harvard and not Columbia.
I still remember a high school classmate of mine applying to University as a "Native American." This is a normal looking white guy that is at best 1/8 and at worst 1/16 or 1/32 Native American. Yeah, he milked it for all its worth.
The opposite was observed during SFFA v. Harvard, and personality is a biased criteria, so I would not want to admit it into the admissions process anyway.
As much as I fear Columbia is discriminating that certainly can't be inferred from the data as presented. For instance, maybe Columbia tries to ensure a certain kind of geographic balance in admits, a certain balance in what majors people are interested in or any of a hundred other breadth or other goals which are also correlated with being asian -- I bet they get less asian applicants from Montana.
I find this troubling in terms of admission choices but they are private institutions with lots of discretion and we can't lower the standards for the law just because it can sometimes be hard to prove.
Imagine my shock. Well played to the hacker. Hope these universities pay dearly for their crimes.
>Virtually every qualification favors White and Hispanic students
That should read "White and Asian students."
Thanks for catching that typo!
Columbia so racist smh
Agreed.
https://www.mindingthecampus.org/2025/04/11/how-to-monitor-harvards-admissions/
If students were required to be tested on exit for University accreditation then,
(1) Admissions racism would be obvious (and punishable)
(2) Grade inflation would not be an issue.
(3) Joke grievance studies majors would be easily provable to be grifts.
(4) Junk rankings putting Harvard at 3rd would disappear.
Yup great suggestion. Similar vibe to an essay I recently wrote on PhDs being too easy. The fact is, once you’re in, you’ve got away with the crime. It shouldn’t be possible for a mediocre IQ individual to make it through university, even if they get illegally vaulted past the admissions process
The race category is a self declaration. Meaning if a person is only 1/8 black, they can still claim to be black. I think that's what's happening. SAT scores of 1480 is exceedingly rare and this person can probably go to Harvard and not Columbia.
I still remember a high school classmate of mine applying to University as a "Native American." This is a normal looking white guy that is at best 1/8 and at worst 1/16 or 1/32 Native American. Yeah, he milked it for all its worth.
Anti-Whiteness is their ideology!
If you're granting that racial differences exist, perhaps the blacks just have better personalities.
The opposite was observed during SFFA v. Harvard, and personality is a biased criteria, so I would not want to admit it into the admissions process anyway.
As much as I fear Columbia is discriminating that certainly can't be inferred from the data as presented. For instance, maybe Columbia tries to ensure a certain kind of geographic balance in admits, a certain balance in what majors people are interested in or any of a hundred other breadth or other goals which are also correlated with being asian -- I bet they get less asian applicants from Montana.
I find this troubling in terms of admission choices but they are private institutions with lots of discretion and we can't lower the standards for the law just because it can sometimes be hard to prove.
You ever heard of Occam’s Razor?