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02651 Re: New York Post: "The Stunning Evidence of Harvard's Racism"
   Make sure I got this right . . . Harvard is supposed to be a high...
Zimbler0   POPE 5   20 Jun 2018
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ribit   POPE 5   20 Jun 2018
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New York Post: "The Stunning Evidence of Harvard's Racism"

By: Beldin in POPE 5
Tue, 19 Jun 18 11:40 PM
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http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2018/06/18/new-york-post-the-stunning-evidence-of-harvards-racism/

... The editorial explains that Harvard University discriminated against Asian applicants by weighing down the group's high test scores with low marks in Harvard's personal rating. "The documents also show how Harvard discriminates to counter Asians' tendency to do extremely well on traditional measures (test scores, grades, and extracurriculars), it routinely rates them lower on soft categories like "positive personality," being "widely respected, likability, kindness, etc," the editorial reads.

The Post explained how much more difficult it would be to gain admission to Harvard as an Asian male. "An analysis by the plaintiffs' experts of Harvard data on more than 160,000 applicants show how skewed the process has grown: A male Asian-American with a 25 percent chance of admission would have a 35 percent chance if he were white," the editorial reads, "75 percent if he were Hispanic and 95 percent if he were black." (The legal brief didn't outline a similar breakdown for females.)

The Students for Fair Admissions, the advocacy group behind the discrimination complaint against Harvard University claims that the report reveals that the Ivy League university does engage in a practice of prejudice against Asian-Americans. "It turns out that the suspicions of Asian-American alumni, students, and applicants were right all along," the group said in a statement. "Harvard today engages in the same kind of discrimination and stereotyping that it used to justify quotas on Jewish applicants in the 1920s and 1930s." ...




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