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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Reading the article I see "A Chinese-American student, Jian Li, filed a complaint against Princeton with the Education Department in 2006, alleging discrimination on the basis of race or national origin. Li, who scored the maximum 2400 on the SAT and 2390 -- 10 points below the ceiling -- on subject tests in physics, chemistry and calculus, [b]was denied admission by Princeton, Harvard, Stanford University, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. [/b]"

So I guess Li must be contending that all these schools are in cahoots since he/she was turned down by all of them. [/quote]

No, but the contention is that all of the Ivy's use a race-based discriminatory admission system.  The accusation is that after Affirmative Action policies were established that they set quotas which meant that certain races get admitted with much lower criteria than other races.  And as such, quota based systems discriminate.  The case is trying to establish that colleges and universities need to return to a merit-based admission system.[/quote]

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