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https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/30/us/politics/asian-students-affirmative-action-harvard.html
This is about to get interesting, could be the case that guts race based admission across the nation. Discriminating against applicants based on nothing but skin color is absurd and shouldn’t be happening in this day and age. Let the most qualified rise to the top no matter their skin color.
At the heart of the case is whether Harvard’s admissions staff hold Asian-Americans to higher standards than applicants of other racial or ethnic groups, and whether they use subjective measures, like personal scores, to cap the number of Asian students accepted to the school.
“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,” Students for Fair Admissions said in a court filing.
This is about to get interesting, could be the case that guts race based admission across the nation. Discriminating against applicants based on nothing but skin color is absurd and shouldn’t be happening in this day and age. Let the most qualified rise to the top no matter their skin color.