Federal Judge Upholds Harvard's Race-Conscious Admissions Process

Re:Federal Judge Upholds Harvard's Race-Conscious Admissions... by DiogenesKynikos on Tuesday October 01, 2019 @05:00PM (#21130582)

Indeed, Harvard's own internal study determined that if academics were all that mattered, 43% of admitted students would be Asian.

The major factors pushing down that percentage are legacy admissions and the vague "personal rating," which seems to be the knob Harvard admissions turns to get the demographic ratios it desires. Asians are systematically given a far lower "personal rating" than other demographics.

Source: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/10/harvard-admissio...

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Re:Federal Judge Upholds Harvard's Race-Conscious Admissions... by TulliusCicero on Tuesday October 01, 2019 @05:12PM (#21130713)

"Well it's simple you see, Asians are simply less personable, as a group, than white folk. No no no, it's not blatant discrimination at all, I assure you! It's just science, I swear!"

I really don't see how anyone justifies this kind of thing in 2019. This is like the barest possible fig leaf over obvious prejudice. They could rename it to "Cromulence Factor" and it'd make as much sense.

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Re:Federal Judge Upholds Harvard's Race-Conscious Admissions... by dmix on Tuesday October 01, 2019 @05:31PM (#21130927)

It's a personal rating not a personable rating.

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Re:Federal Judge Upholds Harvard's Race-Conscious Admissions... by TheCoelacanth on Wednesday October 02, 2019 @09:34AM (#21136215)

The smoking gun is that Asians were doing just fine on personal ratings given by Harvard alumni, but were doing poorly specifically on the personal ratings given by Harvard admissions officers.

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