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Harvard consistently rated Asian-American applicants lower than others on traits like “positive personality,” likability, courage, kindness and being “widely respected,” according to an analysis of more than 160,000 student records filed Friday by a group representing Asian-American students in a lawsuit against the university.
Harvard consistently rated Asian-American applicants lower than others on traits like “positive personality,” likability, courage, kindness and being “widely respected,” according to an analysis of more than 160,000 student records filed Friday by a group representing Asian-American students in a lawsuit against the university.
Though, it was probably the only thing keeping standards somewhat high.
Eliminate Asian over-representation based on racial discrimination, and the school still looks somewhat diverse with the remaining merit based admissions and while keeping standards high.
On merit only based admission without an anti-Asian bias, they might have an Asian overepresentation that implies one of two things:
1. A racial association with intelligence
or
2. A racial bias toward Asians.
Of course, the public would default to the first.
So, what to do after Asians aren't hamstrung anymore, and to avoid the political death-trap of implying a racial bias in intelligence?
Explicitly lower the admissions and academic standard floor so that more people of other races make it to Step 2, and thus the final stage admissions pool is diverse again with everyone being selected on the "personality" (read" equal racial representation) factor.
You'll have your Asian equal representation, but I predict that you won't actually see more Asians relative to other groups. What you'll see is everyone represented equally, and standards drop to effect that change.
Last, there is a national security consideration with high level Ivy and science school admissions. We allow students in from all over the world, and even second and third generation immigrants can have significant ties to their homelands in China, Iran, Turkey, Russia, Saudi Arabia, and Africa. Consideration is likely given to assure that people with significant foreign ties don't overtake our best programs. National security and national interest isn't necessarily racial discrimination, even though it may look like it. We want the people who will be staffing the CIA, NSA, etc to also have high level degrees.
Harvard consistently rated Asian-American applicants lower than others on traits like “positive personality,” likability, courage, kindness and being “widely respected,” according to an analysis of more than 160,000 student records filed Friday by a group representing Asian-American students in a lawsuit against the university.
I'd have to agree, honestly. Obviously not all Asians are unlikeable, but based solely on personal experience, I can certainly see some truth in these statistics.
IMO, it has nothing to do with the color of their skin but rather a cultural/environmental influence, and the fact that I'm looking at it from my own perspective, as a white person.
Harvard consistently rated Asian-American applicants lower than others on traits like “positive personality,” likability, courage, kindness and being “widely respected,” according to an analysis of more than 160,000 student records filed Friday by a group representing Asian-American students in a lawsuit against the university.
So what? Harvard has consistently rated whites lowest on the most important trait: admissibility.
Those Asians are too good and they deserve to be knocked down a few notches because they have the wrong skin color.
Well, they've been doing that to white people for 50 years, to a much worse extent. Whites are the only race underrepresented at Ivy League schools either way you look at it. Based on population whites should be about 60% of the students, and based on academic credentials whites should again be about 60% of the students. Instead, whites are about 25-30% of the students.
Well, when you're ranking anything there has to be a winner and a loser.
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