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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][url]https://archive.ph/9tHjW[/url]

Did Asians benefit from Affirmative Action Ban?

This article says no.

[b]Increasingly lost in all this ... is Asian-American students[/b]. The thrust of the lawsuit that overturned race in admissions was that Harvard was discriminating against Asian-American applicants. Yet [b]since the ruling, their numbers have barely budged[/b].

Only 10 of the 39 colleges in the New England sample saw the number of Asian-American students increase over the last two years.

“The bottom line is that this lawsuit at Harvard claimed to be about supposed anti-Asian discrimination,” 
“And if that were actually the case, then you would expect to see increases in Asian-American students. There are some at super-selective institutions, but [b]what we mainly see are big changes in other underrepresented minorities[/b].”

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That would be because Asians were not and are not being discriminated against.[/quote]

This is the most likely conclusion.

-  The number and share of White and Asian American freshmen remained relatively flat across the board, although there was a slight uptick in the number and share of Asian American freshmen at Ivy Plus schools.

-  Interestingly, Hispanic enrollment increased in aggregate at more selective institutions that did [u]not provide a legacy preference[/u] and declined at those that did. This disparity was not observed for Black students.

-  These enrollment patterns reflect a phenomenon known as a cascade effect, in which highly qualified students of color who would have been much more likely to be admitted to highly selective institutions pre-SFFA ended up enrolling in less selective institutions, thus displacing students there and pushing them to less selective institutions.  [/quote]

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