Asian Americans file complaint alleging discrimination in Harvard admissions

[JMolina]

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Source: Washington Post

More than 60 Asian American organizations filed a complaint (see below) with the federal government on Friday alleging that Harvard University discriminates against Asian Americans in the admissions process and calling for an investigation.

The Harvard Crimson, a student newspaper on campus, wrote in this story that 64 groups filed the complaint with the U.S. Education and Justice departments, arguing that the university makes an “unlawful use of race” in its decisions that hurts Asian Americans.

More than 21 percent of the admitted students for the current school year were Asian American, according to Harvard data. Asian Americans comprised the largest minority group accepted, the data shows. In the Class of 2017, admitted four years earlier, Asian Americans comprised 19.9 percent.

Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2015/05/16/asian-americans-file-complaint-alleging-discrimination-in-harvard-admissions/

[jtuck004]

1. We value diversity. These groups do not, but in a perverse way they see that as discrimination.

Waste of time, and they are trying to make things worse.

[FLPanhandle]

2. You have to allow leeway for some diversity.

"The complaint, filed by a coalition of 64 organizations, says the university has set quotas to keep the numbers of Asian-American students significantly lower than the quality of their applications merits. It cites third-party academic research on the SAT exam showing that Asian-Americans have to score on average about 140 points higher than white students, 270 points higher than Hispanic students and 450 points higher than African-American students to equal their chances of gaining admission to Harvard. The exam is scored on a 2400-point scale."

So if a colleges go by only test scores/grades they will fill all their slots with Asians and Whites, so how many Hispanic and African-Americans will be in universities?

If they want more Asians, then what group gets less slots?

[1StrongBlackMan]

4. To both questions ...

they don't care.

[FLPanhandle]

5. True n/t

[Helen Borg]

3. Looks to me like Harvard can do what the hell they want with admissions...

[cosmicone]

6. Either we have meritocracy or we are dumbing everyone down

for the sake of diversity.

I have no problem with spending extra on black and Hispanic students in high school to make them work harder and assist them with SATs but admitting someone because of race is just as bad as not admitting someone because of race.

[pnwmom]

7. You're assuming that the College Board tests and similar tests are an unbiased way

of judging merit. They aren't.

[TexasTowelie]

8. Locking thread.

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[quadrature]

9. what is their quota for dumbs? 10% 50% ? ...nt