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Previous investigation into the subject of discrimination has found no evidence of discrimination only because the investigation was not objective. There is an incentive to keep the status quo.
And you point to extracurriculars as if the Asian students DON'T have any - that they are only test scores and grades. But that's not true at all.
These students that are suing also have all the extracurriculars. PLUS higher test scores on average .
So logic dictates if you eliminate extracurrciular, test scores and grades, the only other deciding factor is: race.
An Asian student has to have better scores than black people, Latinos AND white people.
If that is not discrimination, then what is?
Your analysis is flawed because you're weighing all extracurriculars as equally attractive. As I've said in other posts - if you have 10 kids with the piano on their application then the 4-10th people are less attractive because you already have stronger representatives at that instrument. Whereas if you have another 4 applicants with the drum, you might take slightly less academically qualified students with drums because you want piano and drum, not just all piano.
Also, what I've been reading suggests that schools want applicants with really amazing talent in a few areas. These schools get so many elite academic applicants that they can pass on many of them in order to offer opportunities to talent in other areas.
Additionally, all of these things are measured against how you achieved them. If someone has great SAT scores but they've spent all of their energy on pursuits that bolster SAT performance or they've been tutored/coached to maximize those scores. it's less attractive than someone with slightly lower SAT scores but who achieved them without the additional assistance.
What's more incredible - a well coached basketball player sinking 10 free throws in a row or someone who's never played the game sinking 8 out of 10 on their first try?
All of that appears to matter in academic admissions because it adds context and nuance to raw numbers. People want to reduce it to raw numbers and race when that just suggests that they don't really understand the criteria that schools are applying to their admissions decisions.