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Sorry for the confusion. I was referring to the evidence about the actual damages, not the evidence about the plaintiff's qualifications to get into the school.

In order to successfully sue someone for $5 million you have to prove that you've suffered damages in the amount of $5 million.

How does someone prove that their failure to get admitted to Yale has cost them $5 million? Yale can produce plenty of evidence to show that many of their enrolled freshman don't graduate because they drop out, fail out, and occasionally even get arrested and go to prison. And even those who do graduate don't ALL get highly-paid jobs.

Something else to remember here is that nobody who is applying to a college (especially a private one) has a legal claim on a seat in a college. Depriving someone of admission to a school doesn't take something away from him that he OWNS ... so a major hurdle here in these lawsuits is that a plaintiff is first going to have to demonstrate that he even has the legal standing to file the suit in the first place.

I don't think so. My daughter had 35/36 ACT scores, 2350 SAT. She was HS Valedictorian with 99.6 OA average, all AP & IB courses. she tutored calculus, speaks 2 languages, plays 2 musical instruments, state champion swimmer. several goody-two-shoes volunteer gigs. She was rejected by Princeton, Yale & Harvard after lengthy interviews. These schools brag about how many foreign students get in. One of the schools (Yale if I recall) actually published the breakdown of test scores of accepted students. many, many acceptees with scores hundreds and hundreds of points lower.

they simply do not want middle-class white kids.