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No, but it is 10 times harder. A black woman with Zhong's resume would have gotten in everywhere, and you know it.

Anyways, it's not me that's saying it: https://studentsforfairadmissions.org/

They recently won a court case you may have heard of: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Students_for_Fair_Admissions_v...

But that decision is too late for this guy.

> and you know it

Black women have it so easy, and I know it? You think I know that black women have an unfair advantage and that's why universities are unfairly full of black women?

No. He is saying the former.

The latter is not true, but it is the case that black women drop out at disproportionately high rates out of these programmes.

Not of all these schools participate in AA. Caltech notably does not.

The most likely reasons he didn't get into Caltech are probably:

1. Caltech is a lot smaller than most of the others, only admitting a little over 400 per year.

2. Caltech puts more emphasis on producing researchers than most of the others do.

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