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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Harvard wants to increase their URM students to a point!  I agree that they are discriminating against Asians. [b] However, I would argue that Harvard will not decrease the number of whites students below 50%[/b]. If that happens wealthy/elite whites will not want to attend and it will lose its status.  I don't think that is fair, but that is the reality. [/quote]

They are already below 50%.  The last two classes have been majority-minority.  You can look this up; indeed Harvard brags about it.
You really could argue that the Asians are proportionally represented, blacks and Hispanics slightly over-represented, and whites are under-represented.  Really it's the whites who have a case here based on disparate impact.  [/quote]

OP here. Yes, I just looked it up and it is 44%. [b] I still stand by my overall point that their ultimate diversity goal is to keep whites as the majority of any racial group.[/b]  [/quote]

? but they are in the majority, both in the population and in the applicant pool.  Not sure I understand your point.[/quote]

My point is that the diversity initiative has an overall agenda. Some people on this thread are arguing that Harvard wants to increase URM numbers at the expense of whites and Asians. My point is that they want to show they are diverse to a point and that the line that will not be crossed is whites becoming the smallest share of any group. This is evidence in many areas of life: housing, k-12 education, work. I think Asians should not be discriminated against. I'm pointing out the motives behind such decisions. Harvard becoming 40-50% Asian doesn't fit into #MAGA era we are living in. [/quote]

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