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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The DOJ brief specifically mentions the personality ratings as being especially troubling.  If you remember from the NYT article from June:

"Alumni interviewers give Asian-Americans personal ratings comparable to those of whites. But the admissions office gives them the worst scores of any racial group, often without even meeting them, according to Professor Arcidiacono."
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/15/us/harvard-asian-enrollment-applicants.html

I remember finding this especially offensive so I am really happy that the DOJ took note of this as evidence of prejudice.

I don't know if it will make a difference for my Asian daughter who will be applying to colleges in a couple of years but perhaps it will help her daughter get a fair shake.

The other problem is that the bias seems to continue at school:

https://www.npr.org/2014/04/22/305814367/evidence-of-racial-gender-biases-found-in-faculty-mentoring

and persist after you embark upon a career (especially in STEM which is what my daughter is most interested in):

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/01/asian-americans-science-math-bias/551903/[/quote]
Yep... even educated white people seem to stereotype Asian Americans and thinks it's ok:

[quote]We see tremendous bias against Asian students and that's not something we expected. So a lot of people think of Asians as a model minority group. We expect them to be treated quite well in academia, and at least in the study and in this context [b]we see more discrimination against Indian and Chinese students that against other groups.[/b][/quote][/quote]

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