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Irrelevant. They actively discriminate against Asians. If you're Asian, your SAT score has to be more than 100 points better than the competition, all other things being equal.
Harvard is playing the Affirmative Action game. The whole, "academics isn't everything" line of BS just gives enables them to decide that a few black kids with worse GPA's, 150+ worse SAT scores, coming from crappy High Schools just happen to be "people that are more likely to change society." And then most of those black kids can't handle the arduous academic standards of Harvard and most of them will drop out. Feel free to look it up. Black kids have the highest rate of dropping out and IMHO it's because they're being setup to fail by getting into schools they aren't actually good enough for. It also makes the black kids who did earn their way all along look bad as well.
If you earn everything you get in life, you will seldom find yourself out of your depth and hopelessly lost.
Who said anything about black kids? You're just showing your racism.
Why is it Harvard's job to "represent America"? Ivy League schools, more or less by definition, do not represent America; they represent a very elite slice of America. Why, then, are they so bent out of shape because they have "too many" Asians and "not enough" of certain others?
If Harvard were solely privately funded, their racist discrimination would be annoying, but I would support their right to choose their student body according to whatever criteria they wished. But the fact is, Harvard (and almost every other college, public or private) receives a great deal of Federal support. And I do not want my tax dollars to support racist discrimination. It's wrong, it's illegal, and it should be stopped.
Who said it was Harvards job? What you're calling for his really more racial discrimination just more so in the way you consider acceptable.
Harvard tries to represent America the best it can. The U.S. is less than 5% Asian, Harvard is 20% Asian. Harvard is already stretching itself as it is.
If we aspire to have a society where skin color is fairly arbitrary, we are going to have to to act like skin color is arbitrary at some point.
Wow, you can look at someone and know their impact on society... What a load of horse manure... Seems to me you show your own racism for even saying that Asians only excel at academics, complete racist stereotype... You must be a liberal Democrat...
Not sure if you read the lawsuit, but it alleges that Harvard puts a huge emphasis on things other than academics like likability something in winch Asian students feel like disadvantages them.
Not sure if you read the lawsuit, but it alleges that Harvard puts a huge emphasis on things other than academics like likability something in winch Asian students feel like disadvantages them.
I don't know if you know that Asians Americans ARE disadvantaged to other applicants in Harvard... A system that disadvantage someone purely on race is racist, even if you call it by another name... There is no single attribute that Asians are lacking compared to any other race... For Harvard to say Asians don't have X characteristic is BS... It's institutionalized racism...
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