[461] in Discussion of MIT-community interests
admissions
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marisa J Kirschbaum)
Wed May 2 13:30:19 2001
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To: mit-talk@MIT.EDU
Date: Wed, 02 May 2001 13:25:18 -0400
From: Marisa J Kirschbaum <marisa@MIT.EDU>
Jay> Was it not asserted (with some evidence) that the current
Jay> system selects less-qualified (by the rating mechanism used by
Jay> the admissions folks) underrepresented minorities at the
Jay> expense of the rest of the pool? Or am I simply losing track
Jay> of all the spewage on this list? It seems that the argument is
deberg>
>it may be that i got lost in the thread, but my prior understanding is
>that AA only comes into play (along w/ legacies) when choosing
>acceptances out of a small pool of otherwise-equal candidates.
For the record, a friend of mine was an admissions counselor at MIT
and she told me that as long as an underrepresented minority or female met
some minimum qualifications (as determined by what I don't know?) they
pretty much automatically get in. So *all* admitted students are qualified,
but it's harder to get in if you are a male majority student.
Disclaimer: I was told this in 1997-1998 and I could be remembering
incorrectly.
Marisa
