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Re:Harvard University Won’t Require SAT, ACT for Admissions ... by mauflows on Tuesday June 16, 2020 @10:36AM (#23539598)
Couldn't diversity be considered an objectively good thing to strive to have?

Anecdotally, I went to a technical school but some of my biggest shifts in perspective came from interacting with liberal arts and minority students.

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Re:Harvard University Won’t Require SAT, ACT for Admissions ... by gizmo686 on Tuesday June 16, 2020 @10:43AM (#23539678)
Yes. The legal justification for affirmative action getting an exception to anti-discrimination laws is that a diverse student body improves the quality of eduaction for all students; so there is a compelling interest to discriminate.
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Re:Harvard University Won’t Require SAT, ACT for Admissions ... by oh_sigh on Tuesday June 16, 2020 @01:11PM (#23541494)
It certainly doesn't improve the quality of education of the students who were rejected in favor of someone with a different color skin.
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