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Re:Harvard discrimination lawsuit: data show penalization of... by allenz on Sunday June 17, 2018 @10:57PM (#17335716)
Racial quotas are illegal, so Harvard cannot say it outright. Harvard says that race is considered as a factor in their holistic evaluation.
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Re:Harvard discrimination lawsuit: data show penalization of... by hn_throwaway_99 on Sunday June 17, 2018 @11:05PM (#17335745)
Yep, and it is the US Supreme Court responsible for this semi-nonsense. At the end of the day, looking at a statistically large enough population, "one factor in a holistic evaluation" ends up looking exactly the same as quotas.
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