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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Harvard counts values of Applicants into mix. How is that AA?

True example my elderly neighbor across street on Tuesday fell and ambulence and police showed up. My wife and kids went over help and my neighbor also. We offered to check mail, get groceries help out while wife in hospital. Husband is an elderly Vet whose kids live out of state.

The two Chinese family with kids radio silence. Violin, Piano, Clubs at school, volunteer activity that will look good on college application interest them. No credit they don't get involved.

So Harvard looks a bit deeper at application to find empathic kind people who are good citizens but those metrics are letting in better people but folks who may have slightly lower GPAs. How is it racist. My Chinese neighbor kids could have helped and put it in college essay. [/quote]

As an Asian I totally agree that the Chinese family should have pitched in.  Maybe if elite schools did not discriminate against them as much as they do, that family would have.

As a matter of common sense, I don't think Harvard should care about how nice you are or how social you are to admit you to an ACADEMIC program.  Look at all the nice, social people that went through Harvard and what they do in real life after college.  Most pretend to get in.  Most are A-holes a few years after they get out.  Harvard pretends it has "holistic" criteria for admission that in reality discriminates against people of a certain ilk.  It's time to kill that game or at least not subsidize it with taxpayer money.

If this was the Harvard School of Receptionistology or Housewifery, I can understand..[/quote]

It's nice that you feel that way, but it's irrelevant here because, regardless of what happens with this suit, Harvard is a private institution with a fair amount of latitude to decide which criteria it wants to use in making admissions determinations. Your narrow-minded view of what college can/should be isn't universally held.[/quote]

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