The top-level admissions offices must know that if they went for total double-blind selective admissions based on merit, their ethnic component would be radically altered: up to 50% east Asian, 30% Euro-American, 10% other international students, and 10% combined American Latino and Black.
Over a generation those percentages would change as more non-Asian students rise to the Asian level, but they would not be getting the neo-Marxist DEI that is a sacramental necessity in their minds today.
Most in the hierarchy of academic administrations (particularly the ‘elite’ universities) wouldn’t know an ethic if it bit them.
Author has left out: "... and impose draconic DIE standards on the non-elite."
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