Lawsuit Alleges Harvard Placed Quotas On Asian-american Admissions

Harvard University admissions currently discriminates against Asian-Americans the same way it placed quotas on Jewish applicants in the 1920s and '30s, a lawsuit filed Friday alleges. The Boston-based lawsuit says the school gave Asian-American applicants consistently low personality scores, slashing their chances of admission, per The New York Times. The highest personality ranking was given to 21.3 percent of white applicants, but just 17.6 percent of Asian-Americans — many of whom admissions officers hadn't even met. Students for Fair Admissions, the group levying the suit, says the low scores were intended to hold Harvard's Asian-American population around 20 percent, per the Times.

 

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