Sailer In TakiMag: White and Bright...And "Underrepresented"
06/26/2019
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From my new column in Taki’s Magazine:

White and Bright
by Steve Sailer

June 26, 2019

A new study from Georgetown University reveals that if the student bodies of the 200 most selective American colleges were enrolled solely on objective SAT or ACT aptitude test scores, their student bodies would increase from 66 percent white under the current subjective system to 75 percent white.

Ironically, this study was supposed to prove, in the wake of the entertaining and immensely popular Varsity Blues scandal in which TV actresses bribed their lowbrow kids into USC instead of Arizona State, that affluent white people have unfair advantages in college admissions. …

But instead, their numbers turned out backwards from their desired results. …

Boys would do better than under the present arrangement, increasing from 50 percent of the current student body to 54 percent.

In other words, under a less subjective system of college admissions, the big winners would be the Current Year’s designated losers: white boys.

Many people have misinterpreted these results as being wholly due to choices on the part of colleges.

… But there’s an important yet subtle third factor that was glossed over in the report and in most of the initial media coverage: In present-day America, white males tend to be less narcissistic and ambitious about getting into prestige colleges than are other groups. So they apply to fancy colleges less often relative to their test scores.

Read the whole thing there.

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