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Showing Original Post only (View all)Asian groups allege Harvard discriminates against them in admissions [View all]
"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."
They can't just base admissions on test scores and GPA, Harvard would be 80% Asian. They have to look at the best and brightest from each group, not across the board, in order to promote any shred of diversity.
http://www.wsj.com/articles/asian-american-organizations-seek-federal-probe-of-harvard-admission-policies-1431719348