Wednesday, November 19, 2014

Rejected for Being Asian: Students Sue Harvard, UNC Over Race-Based Admissions

Rejected for Being Asian: Students Sue Harvard, UNC Over Race-Based Admissions - Hit & Run : Reason.com:
"Harvard University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill are facing lawsuits over their race-based admissions schemes, which hold Asian and white students to higher standards because of their skin color.
The lawsuits were filed Monday by a group of interested parties, including two unnamed college students who were rejected from Harvard and UNC.
According to Inside Higher Ed, the Harvard applicant is of Asian ethnicity:
He had a perfect ACT score, two 800s on SAT II subject exams, and was valedictorian of his high school.
He didn't get in.
Remarkably, Harvard has managed to keep its Asian student population constant over the years, while universities that don't consider race as an admission factor have seen more and more Asians gain admittance.
....One professor even had the gall to suggest that discriminating against Asians is good for Asians. According to Fox News:
“Asian-American students benefit greatly from attending the racially and socio-economically diverse campuses that affirmative action helps create,” Julie Park, assistant professor of education at the University of Maryland and author of the book “When Diversity Drops,” told FoxNews.com."

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