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dudeascending
Joined: 15 Aug 2013
Last visit: 25 Feb 2014
Posts: 21
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Concentration: Organizational Behavior, Social Entrepreneurship
Schools: Yale '16 (II) LBS '16 Stanford '16 (S)
GMAT 1: 750 Q48 V46
GPA: 3.84
WE:Editorial and Writing (Non-Profit and Government)
15 Aug 2013, 10:28
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Haha, thanks, EssaySnark! I do aim to impress.
15 Aug 2013, 14:52
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Stats were pulled directly from class profiles of those schools. Duke URMs (Under-represented minorities, not including Asian-Ams) (look for 'typical class profile'), Stern URMs (right under 'minority students').
My '!!!' was as a response to Tuck's 15%, which is listed as 'U.S. Minorities' on their website. My understanding of 'U.S. Minorities' is that the term includes all ethnic minorities in the U.S., including Asian-Ams. This may be a semantics issue for HBS (thanks for the clarification on Stanford, I was looking at their Class of 2012 data) - and if they do indeed have URM percentages in the 25 percent range, I definitely cheer that - but if the definition for Harvard includes Asian-Ams, they are likely in the same range for URMs.
I am also a stickler about reporting accurate information to the applicant community, (hence the correction above on the application vendor), and I think part of that is being open about what our statistics mean. I know that SOM takes diversity very seriously, and that recruiting a diverse class is a priority every year. That said, I still think we are tracking close to our peer schools, though I don't deny there's still work to be done.
16 Aug 2013, 08:12
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@OhDenny, thanks for the links - hadn't seen that new page on Duke's site. It's good that more schools are breaking out the data more explicitly. Percentage-wise sure, Yale is similar to its peers, but in this case we'd like to see them being compared on absolute numbers. We're guessing that Yale accepted higher numbers of minority applicants and simply failed to convert them. It's one of those cycles that is likely hard to break - the schools that already have (comparatively) larger numbers of minority students are probably in a stronger position to attract more.
Appreciate the exchange! Gave us a chance to update our database too. Thanks - and have fun in New Haven! If you thought the first year was good, just wait - the second is over the top awesome.
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Appreciate the exchange! Gave us a chance to update our database too. Thanks - and have fun in New Haven! If you thought the first year was good, just wait - the second is over the top awesome.
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