I hate this logic of “it’s so common, I won’t even attempt to link to the countless pieces of evidence. Of course, it’s a contentious issue so if you google you will find nothing. I’ll just make a vacuous statement and argue with you for not accepting it.”

Making someone else do a simple google search, because you simply want to reply "nuh uh" is uncharitable.

https://cew.georgetown.edu/cew-reports/selectivebias/

https://www.city-journal.org/article/college-admissions-bias...

As I understand it, there was some evidence: Asians applications were being suppressed, due to volume to maintain...a more diverse student body (or maybe just every elite school was racist?). https://www.forbes.com/sites/christopherrim/2023/02/27/what-...