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Of course, I am suggesting "solely" academic excellence be considered as an admission criteria.  That doesn't mean the successful students who get admission offers are one dimensional.  [/quote]

Aaaannnnd... no one said the latter.

So, should non-academic skills be valued in admission or not?

[quote=Anonymous]It has tax exempt status and hence it doesn't pay taxes on its revenue, be it tuition and other fee from students or profits from its endowment fund investments.  We will see in the next few years what the courts (all the way to SCOTUS) will determine.  Just because Harvard is a private university it can't do willy nilly anything it pleases.  [/quote]

Do you apply the same rules to all non-profits?  Churches, charities, and private clubs?

Harvard is not doing "willy nilly anything it pleases".  It is following a well-defined criteria for admissions based on its institutional objectives. And a third time, you haven't answered the question: Why should it do what you want and not what it thinks is best?[/quote]

Non-academic skills should not be valued if Harvard wants to have less than 10% admit rate (this percent I picked is as an example to be considered a highly selective university, the percent could be different as a general practice).  You asked me why Harvard should follow my proposal.  It should, not because I want, but because it is fair to all applicants.  Also, it is being non-discriminatory.  To be fair to all applicants while claiming all the glory of being highly selective university it should not have preference categories, except of course for first gen and economically poor families.  I think churches, charities, and private clubs, to be non-exempt and save tax dollars and for donors to claim tax exemptions for their donations, need to be non-discriminatory by law.[/quote]

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