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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I believe the reason this person does not accept your point is that they are 1) Asian American who believes they are being discriminated against, and 2) believe “merit” = “test scores.” Prove me wrong.[/quote]

Read the data. They’re higher rated on academic and extracurricular ratings. [b]What do you mean by merit?  The ability to throw a lacrosse ball?[/b]

If you don’t think Asian american applicants are disadvantaged in the process vis a vis all other groups then there is no point to trying to convince you. [/quote]

DP here. I realize this might not make sense to you, but Harvard values the leadership qualities that many athletes exhibit and those qualities go way beyond the ability to throw a ball. Harvard is not only about producing academics, it is also very much about producing leaders.

The fact that you think Harvard simply values the ability to throw a ball indicates that you don’t really have an understanding of the role sports participation plays in developing leadership qualities in young people. Suffice to say that Harvard sees high level sports participation as desirable in their students for a variety of reasons, both in the present and in their future potential as citizen-leaders. 
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It is  really crazy that colleges and universities around the world manage to develop the future leaders of their countries without recruiting athletes. How do they do it. I mean Oxford and Cambridge must just turn out a bunch of followers who end up working for all those ex-football players. [/quote]

Sure, and they have chosen to do things differently. Oxford and Cambridge do not recruit athletes. In another example, Oxford and Cambridge students study one subject area for three years and do not have to fulfill distribution requirements. US colleges typically require their students to take a broad range of courses and then choose a major. These schools have different approaches to education.

Colleges and universities have different ways and different ways of doing things. Students should spend time researching schools and figure out what they like and what kind of school is a good fit for them. Kids need to decide what kind of a school they would get the most out of and proceed accordingly in the application process.

There is not only one way to produce leaders. Harvard has its way, Oxford has its way. Every college is not like every other college and does not need to be. [/quote]

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