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Re:Harvard’s Admissions Process, Once Secret, Is Unveiled in... by 09bjb on Friday October 19, 2018 @11:09PM (#18261521)
I hate to be this guy, but...how is this different from affirmative action? I'm not saying it's wrong, but affirmative action is discriminating based on race. Surely it hasn't been illegal this whole time?
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Re:Harvard’s Admissions Process, Once Secret, Is Unveiled in... by tbrownaw on Friday October 19, 2018 @11:16PM (#18261543)
It looks like it's complicated: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affirmative_action_in_the_Unit...
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