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Re:Asian-American Students Suing Harvard Over Admissions Win... by nradov on Thursday August 30, 2018 @12:49PM (#17878221)
Harvard (and some other schools) used to apply similar subjective criteria to limit the number of Jewish students.

Since there is no real legal definition of race, applicants who might be disadvantaged by this policy are free to select whichever answer on the "What is your race?" question they want. If the system is unfair, there's nothing immoral about gaming it.

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Re:Asian-American Students Suing Harvard Over Admissions Win... by samangan on Thursday August 30, 2018 @12:57PM (#17878300)
Almost all the ivy leagues have in person interviews... Also are people supposed to fake their names?
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Re:Asian-American Students Suing Harvard Over Admissions Win... by 0x8BADF00D on Thursday August 30, 2018 @01:18PM (#17878577)
https://nypost.com/2015/04/12/mindy-kalings-brother-explains...
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Re:Asian-American Students Suing Harvard Over Admissions Win... by cma on Thursday August 30, 2018 @01:06PM (#17878420)
Is Elizabeth Warren a traditional indigenous name?
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Re:Asian-American Students Suing Harvard Over Admissions Win... by jessaustin on Thursday August 30, 2018 @01:08PM (#17878465)
Truly, Warren is the gift who keeps on giving. She seems to be in the middle of every political disagreement...
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Re:Asian-American Students Suing Harvard Over Admissions Win... by thaumasiotes on Thursday August 30, 2018 @02:07PM (#17879116)
No, but then again neither is "Sitting Bull".

English wasn't common in pre-Columbian America.

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Re:Asian-American Students Suing Harvard Over Admissions Win... by lainga on Thursday August 30, 2018 @12:51PM (#17878249)
Well, by the same token, all you had to do was say "no, I'm not gay" at the US border until 1990.
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