Harvard University 'discriminates against Asian-Americans'
"What Harvard will not admit is that race is not only an important factor, it is the dominant consideration in admitting Hispanics and African-Americans."
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Harvard University is discriminating against Asian-American applicants, a non-profit group suing the flagship US academic institution has claimed.
It said Harvard consistently ranked Asian-American applicants lowest on personal traits such as likeability,
"What Harvard will not admit is that race is not only an important factor, it is the dominant consideration in admitting Hispanics and African-Americans," the SFFA said.
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"An Asian-American applicant with 25% chance of admission, for example, would have a 35% chance if he were white, 75% if he were Hispanic, and 95% chance if he were African-American."
It also claimed that Harvard had come to the same conclusions in its own research in 2013 - but had buried the report.
What would the chances of a Native American be?
The history of Harvard regarding NA's is most interesting.
In 1665, Caleb Cheeshahteaumuck became the first Native American to graduate from Harvard University .
Good question. But I really don't know.
(I have several friends who are programmers/software engineers, so that means a fair number of Asian-Americans. In programming Chinese and Indians (India) are very common. So I've heard a lot of stories of discrimination vs. these two groups in general-- much more than I had realized).
Since NA's are a very small percent of the population it isn't a problem for Harvard or for NA's.
Sad.
It would be nice if we could stop discriminating on the basis of race.