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[quote=Anonymous]So if my upper middle class daughter doesn't get into Harvard and guys with lower grades and scores do is she a victim of sexist admissions practices?  I don't think so.  She's a victim of a particular market -- supply exceeds demand for her kind of student at this particular school. Now if the university's demand for women students was significantly lower than the percentage of women in her college-eligible cohort, I'd look at it differently.  But it isn't.  So I don't think Harvard is trying to keep women out.  I just think they're looking for gender balance. Just as I think they're looking for racial diversity.  And that both are legitimate goals.

I'm certainly not saying that Asians aren't under-represented in other contexts in American society.  Just not in elite universities.  Again, there are parallels to gender -- cf. the glass ceiling.  But the question is where do you intervene and how.  Dismantling affirmative action for underrepresented minorities in the context of college admissions seems like an approach that will lead to a less -- not more -- diverse elite.   [/quote]

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