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[quote=Anonymous]From the Plaintiff's filing

A study of Stuyvesant High School in New York is illustrative. Stuyvesant is considered one of the top high schools in the country. What makes Stuyvesant especially
relevant here, however, is that over 70% of its students are Asian American and it is considered a Harvard feeder school, routinely sending over ten students per year to Harvard—but generally less than half of whom are Asian American. [b]Therefore, the fact that Stuyvesant’s white students have a far better chance of being admitted to Harvard than their Asian-American peers, is deeply troubling.[/b]

When shown these data in her deposition, Stuyvesant’s Director of College Counseling broke down in tears. To her, this looks “like there’s discrimination, and I love these kids and I know how hard they work. So these just look like numbers to all of you guys, but I see their faces.” And [b]she firmly rejected the notion that “the Asian kids are less well rounded than the white kid.”[/b] [b]Ultimately, Stuyvesant’s Director of College Counseling agreed that “it’s hard to think of anything other than discrimination that could account for this.”[/b].[/quote]

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