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Re:Harvard Begs to Discriminate by statguy on Thursday June 14, 2018 @01:38AM (#17309563)
> Is not getting into Harvard specifically such a terrible injustice that it deserves to be litigated in the court of law? What did they lose by not gaining admission in a procedure that is a black box in nearly all institutions?

Maybe not, but a lot of top-tier institutions follow very similar admission policies and so an individual is at the risk of being excluded from all of them solely because of their race. Let's say if this suit against Harvard is successful, it will establish precedent and other institutions will be forced re-examine and amend their admission policies.

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Re:Harvard Begs to Discriminate by akhilcacharya on Thursday June 14, 2018 @03:42AM (#17310072)
>individual is at the risk of being excluded from all of them solely because of their race.

For one thing, UC's and CalTech don't.

And even if they were, my resounding response is.... so? Has society regressed to the point where if you don't go to an elite private institution (i.e. not your flagship public university) you will never achieve anything? If the true problem is a lack of social upward mobility, I feel that's a bigger problem than worrying about who gets to win the lottery.

I say this as someone who got into the other school targeted by the group (UNC, I didn't go) while also being Asian and overall very mediocre.

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Re:Harvard Begs to Discriminate by statguy on Thursday June 14, 2018 @10:56AM (#17312190)
You are not allowed to drive an Audi and have to settle for a Toyota Corolla, just because of your race, even though you have the money. See what I am getting at...
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Re:Harvard Begs to Discriminate by akhilcacharya on Saturday June 16, 2018 @03:06AM (#17326307)
I’m not allowed to ever drive an Audi no matter what I end up earning after the age of 18 (to continue the analogy) - so I have difficulty sympathizing with the people that have to drive Lexuses instead.
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