Group Sues Harvard University for Discrimination Against Asian Student Applicants
A group of prospective Harvard students has filed a lawsuit against the university for discriminating against one minority in favor of another:
The Supreme Court declined to draw a clear line on racial discrimination in university admissions in last year’s Fisher v. University of Texas decision. Now new lawsuits are moving to challenge how far colleges can go in using racial preferences.
A group called Students for Fair Admissions filed lawsuits Monday against Harvard University and the University of North Carolina in federal court. The suits argue that the schools use race preferences to reach a specific racial balance on campus and have failed to abide by the strict scrutiny of racial preferences required by the Supreme Court.
The Harvard challenge concerns what the lawsuit calls a de facto quota on the number of Asian students the school admits. The suit compares its current racial admissions to Harvard’s quotas limiting Jewish students in an earlier era. In both cases, Harvard kept out minorities who would have been admitted based on academic merit.
Over the last eight years Asian students have comprised between 17.6% and 20.7% of students admitted to Harvard. Though the number of Asians applying for admission has increased, the percentage of offers has barely budged. In 1992, 19.1% of Harvard’s admissions offers went to Asian applicants, compared to 25.2% who were admitted to the California Institute of Technology, a school that doesn’t use racial preferences. In 2013 Harvard made 18% of its offers to Asians, while CalTech admitted 42.5% Asian students.
Similar admissions percentages at Harvard have held steady for other racial groups with remarkably little variance. In other words, while schools like Harvard say the goal of racial preferences is to achieve a “critical mass” of minority students, the admissions evidence suggests that the school is reserving pre-rationed pie slices for racial groups. [Wall Street Journal]
You can read more at the link, but people should be able to get ahead based on merit, but as we all know life is not fair and this situation with Harvard admissions is just another example of this.
In grade school I remember in American History the teacher when speaking about the days of segregation said that aside from being morally wrong that the practice of using separate drinking fountains was logically and fiscally unsound, that given the diversity of America today imagine how many separate fountains you would need for each race, their subsets, and mixed? It would be stupid to think you could accommodate everyone so they just got rid of all the race specific fountains because it was the right thing to do.
Unfortunately nameless teach… I don’t need to imagine because all the fountains are still here except they aren’t actually fountains.
Children learn hate from their parents and teachers. They learn it’s okay to do certain things because they are rewarded. They learn not to do other things because they are punished.
That’s why there are so many Democrats living on welfare while those who control the party live like royalty.
I understand why they need to discriminate. They have no choice. If there was no discrimination, schools like Harvard and other top schools will be just 85% all Asians. And pretty soon the America’s future would be in the hands of Asians in leadership, technology, business, you name it. The whites, Latinos, blacks, and other non-achieving races, would all end up in the other pot, working for Asians. So they have to stop this in the bud in the name of racial equality. Perfectly understandable.
Please Tom, update us on all those born and bred in Korea minorities and their status of education in Korea.
Surely a country not even 300 yrs old could not be ahead of 3000 yr old Korea in anyway, shape or form! I mean I’m sure issues like total equality for minorities were all worked 2700 yrs ago and you Koreans have eliminated all forms of discrimination right Tom?
If you could also explain how Korea became #1 in gender equality and equality for native minority groups in Korea itself, maybe some Western and even Arab countries could follow Korea’s lead on this, after 3000 yrs, how could Korea not be #1?
In your best estimate Tom, when will Koreans elect a highly educated half black, half Korean as their president?
Don’t worry Tom, the world will wait for your answers, excuses, deflections etc…
You got it Jigoku! Right on the money! Couldn’t have said it any better myself.