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Re:Feds say Yale discriminates against Asian, white applicants by babesh on Thursday August 13, 2020 @10:56PM (#24152723)
But is that how the universities behave?
Re:Feds say Yale discriminates against Asian, white applicants by skissane on Thursday August 13, 2020 @11:10PM (#24152829)
Yale reports statistics based on these “buckets” on their own website - https://www.yale.edu/about-yale/yale-facts (you have to scroll down to the section labelled “University-wide Enrollments by Ethnicity (% of non-international enrollment)” and click to expand it)

You think, if Yale publishes these statistics on their website, that Yale’s admissions officers aren’t thinking about them during the admissions process?

Re:Feds say Yale discriminates against Asian, white applicants by babesh on Thursday August 13, 2020 @11:14PM (#24152864)
You should look closer at average test scores of admitted students by more fine grained ethnic groups. My high school discriminated by particular ethnic groups: Chinese, Japanese, Indian, Hispanic, etc...
Re:Feds say Yale discriminates against Asian, white applicants by skissane on Thursday August 13, 2020 @11:22PM (#24152917)
Are those figures – i.e. test scores of admitted students broken down by fine-grained ethnic groups – publicly available for Yale? (Or any other similarly prestigious US university?)
Re:Feds say Yale discriminates against Asian, white applicants by babesh on Thursday August 13, 2020 @11:45PM (#24153076)
https://features.thecrimson.com/2013/frosh-survey/admissions...

Harvard

Tap on SAT by Ethnicity

Look at Pacific Islander vs Asian. That is as close as I have found so far.

Re:Feds say Yale discriminates against Asian, white applicants by skissane on Thursday August 13, 2020 @11:57PM (#24153159)
Pacific Islander vs Asian isn't "fine-grained". They are two distinct "buckets" in the US government's standard racial classification system, to which I linked earlier [1]. It is just that the "Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander" bucket sometimes gets its name abbreviated to "Pacific Islanders". "Pacific Islander" is a collective term referring to the indigenous peoples of the islands of the Pacific Ocean, which peoples are divided into three main ethnolinguistic super-groups – Polynesians, Micronesians and Melanesians – and Native Hawaiians are a Polynesian people. New Zealand's Maori are another Polynesian people.

Prior to 1997, the US government had a single bucket, "Asian or Pacific Islander". Since 1997, they've been split into two separate buckets (although it took some time for the bureaucracy to fully adopt the new grouping – the 2000 census still used the old classification, but the 2010 census adopted the new one.)

[1] https://www.census.gov/topics/population/race/about.html

Re:Feds say Yale discriminates against Asian, white applicants by babesh on Friday August 14, 2020 @01:07AM (#24153799)
Re:Feds say Yale discriminates against Asian, white applicants by babesh on Thursday August 13, 2020 @11:28PM (#24152961)
The lawsuit asserts that they discriminate on the basis of both race AND national origin.