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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]That has never been true. POC who were QUALIFIED were admitted, it was never about admitting unqualified students. That a racist lie straight from hell![/quote]

If they were qualified, they wouldn't have needed affirmative action to admit them.[/quote]

The whole issue is because there are a lot more students who meet the qualifications for Harvard and would likely to do well at Harvard, than the available slots at Harvard. The underlying issue is that Harvard is ridiculously overvalued by parents whose genius kids would be just as successful with degrees from any of 100 other excellent universities. [/quote]

Then they should admit the qualified applicants by lottery. Seems a bit more fair IMO. [/quote]

They like to create a class that is not too lopsided, that has just the right ration of engineers and art majors, athletes and musicians, city residents and rural dwellers, and students from all 50 states.  You can't get that from a lottery.[/quote]

Why should we be ok with such social engineering? Isn’t that so very Machiavellian? Why would society incest that much power in such a small unelected group?[/quote]
These are private institutions. No one is forcing you to apply there. [/quote]

Private yes, but take substantial government funding in various forms, which means Federal laws applies. Only one college doesn't take government funding and that is Hillsdale. Harvard could try to go down this path but it means giving up billions in Federal funding as well as access to Federal grants for research and loans for students.

I do wonder what the implications are for contracting set asides for minority owned businesses. I suspect it's just a matter of time. But on the other hand, most "minority owned" businesses in Federal contracting are owned by Asians and South Asians so that's probably why there's little noise in defending those set asides. [/quote]

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