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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][url]https://archive.ph/9tHjW[/url]

Did Asians benefit from Affirmative Action Ban?

This article says no.

[b]Increasingly lost in all this ... is Asian-American students[/b]. The thrust of the lawsuit that overturned race in admissions was that Harvard was discriminating against Asian-American applicants. Yet [b]since the ruling, their numbers have barely budged[/b].

Only 10 of the 39 colleges in the New England sample saw the number of Asian-American students increase over the last two years.

“The bottom line is that this lawsuit at Harvard claimed to be about supposed anti-Asian discrimination,” 
“And if that were actually the case, then you would expect to see increases in Asian-American students. There are some at super-selective institutions, but [b]what we mainly see are big changes in other underrepresented minorities[/b].”

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That would be because Asians were not and are not being discriminated against.[/quote]

Despite all evidence to the contrary.[/quote]
Yes all the middling changes in demographics really serve as strong evidence of discrimination. [/quote]
This is evidence, not necessarily incontrovertible proof:

Demographic evidence:
Asian population went from about 3% in 1990 to about 7% in 2010
The Asian population at Harvard went from 19% in 1990 to 17% in 2010 (it had hovered between 15-20% the entire time with few exceptions.
The Asian population didn't see a significant rise to current levels until the lawsuits started.

Admissions Office evidence:
Asian students were scored better than every other group for every category except athletics which went to white students and personality where the racial ordering was an inverse of the academic ratings.
The alumni interviewers gave pretty much the same proportion of top scores in this category to applicants of every race (this is the item that most frequently convinces alumni that the Harvard black box is actually a bit racist).

Test scores:
There is a significant test score gap at pretty much every selective school.

None of this is absolute proof of intent but it is certainly evidence of discrimination, intentional or otherwise.[/quote]

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