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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Many seem to be glossing over what Harvard is accused of. At its heart there are two key issues.

1). Why does Harvard rate Asian kids consistently and persistently low to very low on likability, courage, kindness and being widely respected? Imagine if Harvard had been rating blacks and Latinos similarly over the years?

2). How/why does Harvard send recruitment letters to many black applicants with SAT scores of around 1100 but the same threshold applies to Asian men @1380 SAT? We are not talking 10 or 20 pts. Many may not understand that the SAT scores range is not linear...........280 pts. is a massive difference.

[b]Harvard admissions claims that race is never a positive or negative factor [/b]but its process says otherwise. The question is does its rigged process rise to the level of actionable legal malfeasance.[/quote]

That's ridiculous; of course race is a factor -- and a completely legal one I might add.

Asians are overrepresented at Harvard already. Apparently the P's argument is they aren't grossly overrepresented enough.[/quote]

The “overrepresented” argument is disingenuous. While there is a higher percentage of Asians at Harvard compared to the overall population, this suit is showing that they are actually underrepresented when considering that but for the subjective personality/leadership factor, their admissions to Harvard should be even higher.

Regardless, it’s really dejecting that people just seem to be so willing to accept racial stereotypes of Asian-Americans (e.g. robot test takers, not leaders, no personality), where if we replaced “Asian” with “black” or “Hispanic” in any of those statements, those same people would likely be rightfully appalled at the not-so-veiled racism. Racism is racism and just because there is a noble societal goal (more representation of blacks and Hispanics at elite schools) doesn’t mean that such racism is justifiable.[/quote]

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