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[quote=Anonymous][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.  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.[/b]  I don't think that is fair, but that is the reality. 
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Same as TJ.  The few whites I know that were admitted, and also a couple Asians I know that were admitted -- don't want to attend TJ for this very reason.  It is simply not a "diverse" experience any longer, when the majority is foreign or first generation Asian.[/quote]

Well too bad for them, they will miss out on the best STEM education around, and whites will be underrepresented at the forefronts of the technological revolution (as they're already beginning to be in Silicon Valley).[/quote]

They won’t miss out. There is plenty of time and opportunity to develop a STEM career in undergrad, grad, and beyond.  Talented kids will catch up and surpass kids who only got to TJ because their parents forced them into cram schools as middle schoolers.[/quote]

Teaching to the test is not real life. [/quote]

And that many of the kids following the forced march into TJ haven't demonstrated any of their own interest in science.[/quote]

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