Of course not but you understand that you are comparing apples and oranges, don't you. The average legacy applicant is also infinitely more qualified than the average URM. A real comparison would be a legacy applicant with 2000-2100 SAT score (significantly below the average for Ivy League) and a black applicant with the same score. Chances are the legacy applicant would not be admitted, chances are the black/latino one would.
Well that will come as a great reassurance to all those 2100 SAT URMs who can't pay for it while the legacy admissions sail on through. "The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor, to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets and to steal bread" -- Anatole France
My woman is from barcelona and i I have travel all over europe since 1988 almost every year, I know a few things about europe and you are 10000%% Right! pabst. BY THE WAY NOTHING IS FREE in a socialist system.
Not free, just cheaper. Sweden spends 9% of its GDP on health care. Canada spends about 10% of its GDP on health care United States spends about 15.2% of its GDP on health care, and many people don't have any coverage.
Actually if they can't pay for it, they don't... Yale Cuts Costs for Families and Students...Families earning less than $60,000 annually will not make any contribution toward the cost of a childâs education, and families earning $60,000 to $120,000 will typically contribute from 1% to 10% of total family income. And all those "bad" wealthy legacy admits will likely pay full price, subsidizing those 2100 SAT URMs.
That's also reassuring that a modern Bush, with his 1770 SAT score legacy admission to Yale would subsidize someone who's got a 2100 SAT and low income. Hell, it's a start.
Bush scored a 1206 on his SAT, 566 of 800 on verbal and 640 of 800 on math. Bush's verbal score would place him between the 84th and 92nd percentile of college-bound students, or the 93rd to 97th percentile of ALL high-school seniors taking the exams, the percentile usually used. -- His math score would also place him between the 84th and 92nd percentile of college-bound students, or the 94th to 98th percentile of ALL high-school seniors taking the exams, the percentile usually used.
One problem top schools have is finding enough Black and minority students with the grades and scores to match the openings they have. So they then need to find other ways to admit black students. They next look at the social activates of students. In fact Obama became a community organizer before he went to Harvard, maybe because he did not have the grades to get in, But we will never know. Reminds me of Kerry in 2004, the one who was running against the "dumb" Bush. Kerry refused to release his Yale grades. His grades ended up being worse the Bush. Remember Clinton releasing all his taxes returns except for 2 years, those happened to be the Cattle years. And now Obama wonât release anything about his college time.
Sigh, no Pabst: Bush at Yale SAT Verbal Score 566 (of 800) SAT Math Score 640 (of 800) http://www.insidepolitics.org/heard/heard32300.html That's a 1206 -- putting him at about the 78% percentile. (Chart below) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAT In modern terms a guy like Bush would have about a 1770 SAT. He was accepted into Yale on a legacy admission. Not retarded, but not magna cum laude either. (And not Yale material as they require about a 2000 to be admitted. Then he started drinking...
Sigh, no Dave. For one you posted the EXACT SAME scores I did. Secondly the scoring was reconfigured even before the new tri-part. You're comparing apples to oranges. Bush would've been around 1300 if one uses your wiki data. To find out how this score stacked up, I called Educational Testing Service, publisher of the SAT, and learned that in 1994, SAT scores had been "re-centered." To offset the steady downward drift of test scores over the years, the scoring scale was adjusted upward so that the mean score for both math and verbal was again 500 (the midpoint on a scale of 200 to 800). Those who took the test before 1994 are now entitled to add a prescribed amount to their scores to see how they compare to students today. http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2310/who-was-the-stupidest-u-s-president