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the incredibly racist move or removing one race blind system for a another race blind system that has a regional balance? Right not TJ exists not just for a narrow section of the county in terms of race, but also in terms of geography. TJ was never meant to be just a pyramid school for Carson and Longfellow [/quote]
Yes, geography, the old tool Harvard used to limit Jewish enrollment.[/quote]

What Harvard does is actually a little more insidious. It pretends to be all about increasing URM enrollment by limiting Asian admissions (higher admission standards for Asians etc.), while hoping that nobody sees that a massive proportion of its admits are legacies / donor admits, who, if you go by the merit argument, do not deserve to be there. 
https://qz.com/1713033/at-harvard-43-percent-of-white-students-are-legacies-or-athletes/. So the system targets Asians, paints Asians as URM enemies, and uses the ensuing drama to camouflage its own perfidy.

Now, what do you bet that the 100/400 scheme being proposed is all about perpetuating that legacy of backdoor entry into TJ? The 'merit' criteria for the 100 appear to be very subjective.

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what school isn't open about preferring legacies? Who do you think elects the boards that run most schools? If you went to a private university, the next time you get to vote on a board- look at any insurgency candidate and there's a good change that increasing legacy admissions will be part of the platform.[/quote]

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