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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Since people are obsessed with racial demographics, according to the article:

Asians: 29.9
Black: 15.3
Latino: 11.3
Native American: 2
Hawaiian: .5

Total: 59%

Implication: whites are 41%

US racial demographics- tried to find current data and found this for 18-24 y/o as of 2021: https://datacenter.kidscount.org/data/tables/11207-young-adult-population-ages-18-to-24-by-race-and-ethnicity#detailed/1/any/false/2048/68,69,67,12,70,66,71,7983/21595,21596

Asians: 6%
Black: 14%
Latino: 23%
Native American: 1%
Hawaiian: .5%
White: 53%

Interesting. Technically speaking, whites are visibly underrepresented, as are Latinos, if the goal is to have Harvard's student body mirror national demographics. We could add an overlay of faith but that gets tricker so let's leave it aside for now. We all know Harvard doesn't admit on merit, so it's not really clear what they're looking for in the ideal student body as they also don't have proportional racial demographic mix either. [/quote]

Has this always been Harvard’s goal?

Asians have long been over represented, which is what makes the lawsuit so stupid [/quote]

Asian Americans are over represented compared to the national population, but NOT to the number of applicants. Isn't that an important factor to consider? Maybe Harvard needs to get more AAs and Latino/a students to apply first, and then worry about the discriminatory stats. The question people should be asking is not why do Asian American families care so much about educational success, but rather why do other racial/ethnic groups seem not to want it as badly?
Harvard is intentionally upholding the negative stereotype of AsAms having no personality in order to keep the number of AsAm students down because there is no other objective way to do so.
The anti-Asian sentiment on this thread is subtle but present--the ambition and academic success of Asian Americans makes people uncomfortable because they full advantage of democratic ideal of meritocracy and outshine racial/ethnic groups in the process by any objective measure. We can debate about whether SATs are "objective" but when you have immigrant children whose parents don't speak a lick of English living in Chinatowns scoring 1500+ of their SATs, you can't say that subtle cultural biases in the test prevent other racial/ethnic groups from scoring well.

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