Anonymous wrote:Asians were used by a wealthy activist named Ed Blum who has a pretty clear agenda. He's the financial backer for the recent cases (Texas, UNC, Harvard) and uses students as his mascots.

His last project was dismantling the voting rights act.



https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/19/us/affirmative-action-lawsuits.html

Mr. Blum is not a lawyer. But he is a one-man legal factory with a growing record of finding plaintiffs who match his causes, winning big victories and trying above all to erase racial preferences from American life.

Mr. Blum, 65, has orchestrated more than two dozen lawsuits challenging affirmative action practices and voting rights laws across the country. He is behind two of the biggest such cases to reach the Supreme Court: one attacking consideration of race in admissions at the University of Texas, which he lost; the other contesting parts of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, widely considered one of this country’s most important pieces of civil rights legislation, which he won.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/30/politics/scotus-affirmative-action-college-admissions-edward-blum/index.html

Blum had previously enlisted White students to sue over race-based admissions at the University of Texas – and lost. He added a new dimension to the Harvard case, claiming that high-achieving Asian American applicants were unlawfully disadvantaged by screening policies that favored traditionally underrepresented Blacks and Hispanics.

A former stockbroker who never went to law school, Blum, now 70, has a talent for fashioning cases that appeal to the increasingly conservative high court. Using many of the same lawyers over the years, he engineered a series of lawsuits against the 1965 Voting Rights Act culminating in Shelby County v. Holder, the 2013 decision that curtailed the reach of the Voting Rights Act over designated states with a history of discrimination.

Blum is awesome. For a non-lawyer he knows a ton about the legal system.

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Anonymous wrote:The sound of white people crying over selective college admissions is amazing.

The lawsuits are being led by Asian Americans.

Edward Blum is not Asian American, you dumbass.

Anonymous wrote:Asians were used by a wealthy activist named Ed Blum who has a pretty clear agenda. He's the financial backer for the recent cases (Texas, UNC, Harvard) and uses students as his mascots.

His last project was dismantling the voting rights act.



https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/19/us/affirmative-action-lawsuits.html

Mr. Blum is not a lawyer. But he is a one-man legal factory with a growing record of finding plaintiffs who match his causes, winning big victories and trying above all to erase racial preferences from American life.

Mr. Blum, 65, has orchestrated more than two dozen lawsuits challenging affirmative action practices and voting rights laws across the country. He is behind two of the biggest such cases to reach the Supreme Court: one attacking consideration of race in admissions at the University of Texas, which he lost; the other contesting parts of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, widely considered one of this country’s most important pieces of civil rights legislation, which he won.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/30/politics/scotus-affirmative-action-college-admissions-edward-blum/index.html

Blum had previously enlisted White students to sue over race-based admissions at the University of Texas – and lost. He added a new dimension to the Harvard case, claiming that high-achieving Asian American applicants were unlawfully disadvantaged by screening policies that favored traditionally underrepresented Blacks and Hispanics.

A former stockbroker who never went to law school, Blum, now 70, has a talent for fashioning cases that appeal to the increasingly conservative high court. Using many of the same lawyers over the years, he engineered a series of lawsuits against the 1965 Voting Rights Act culminating in Shelby County v. Holder, the 2013 decision that curtailed the reach of the Voting Rights Act over designated states with a history of discrimination.

I know some angry activists want to blame the resistance to racial based admissions to white supremacists, but Asians are also firmly opposed to it, especially on this scale as is evident at Harvard where the barrier for Asian heritage students is much higher. If you live and work among Asian Americans, it's a major complaint during college admissions, as well as the concerns over getting rid of magnet programs and tracks for high performing students in the name of equity.

Your attitude is the more racist because you refuse to acknowledge people of different races are capable of having their own experiences and views and can only be manipulated by cackling evil white supremacists.

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Anonymous wrote:https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna77923

Very interesting in light of the lawsuit.

maybe Asians have cracked this harvard puzzle.

Harvard chickened out

LOL

No, Harvard did not chicken out. Harvard is strategic. Harvard figured that Asians have academic chops and are going to other universities instead of Harvard and raising the profile of those universities. The Asians being rejected by Harvard are usually rejected because they are Asians, and because Harvard did not have seats.

Asians are also getting high positions in various industries so eventually it is proved that Harvard is not the only way to become successful. Case in point - UMD. It is a school of choice of many highest performers of mcps magnet programs because of its cohort and race blind admission. In-state tuition does not hurt. Also, the cohort makes the difference.

Harvard name brand is not making things easier for anyone but the most connected whites so Asians are not particularly seeing the benefit of Harvard. In the end, the world order is changing. If Harvard does not take Asians, then other universities become more successful and have influential alums.

Harvard does not care for the tuition $$. Harvard cares about having influence in the world. Harvard is hedging its bets that they have some representation among those leaders in the world that are not White.

Asians were used by a wealthy activist named Ed Blum who has a pretty clear agenda. He's the financial backer for the recent cases (Texas, UNC, Harvard) and uses students as his mascots.

This.

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Anonymous wrote:The sound of white people crying over selective college admissions is amazing.

Selective college admissions = racist admission policies. Would love to see the average test scores/gpas for admitted students by race.

We have it at least relative to Whites.
14.9% higher

Funny how there is no mention of the other races. Gee, I wonder why????

Asians were used by a wealthy activist named Ed Blum who has a pretty clear agenda. He's the financial backer for the recent cases (Texas, UNC, Harvard) and uses students as his mascots.

His last project was dismantling the voting rights act.



https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/19/us/affirmative-action-lawsuits.html

Mr. Blum is not a lawyer. But he is a one-man legal factory with a growing record of finding plaintiffs who match his causes, winning big victories and trying above all to erase racial preferences from American life.

Mr. Blum, 65, has orchestrated more than two dozen lawsuits challenging affirmative action practices and voting rights laws across the country. He is behind two of the biggest such cases to reach the Supreme Court: one attacking consideration of race in admissions at the University of Texas, which he lost; the other contesting parts of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, widely considered one of this country’s most important pieces of civil rights legislation, which he won.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/30/politics/scotus-affirmative-action-college-admissions-edward-blum/index.html

Blum had previously enlisted White students to sue over race-based admissions at the University of Texas – and lost. He added a new dimension to the Harvard case, claiming that high-achieving Asian American applicants were unlawfully disadvantaged by screening policies that favored traditionally underrepresented Blacks and Hispanics.

A former stockbroker who never went to law school, Blum, now 70, has a talent for fashioning cases that appeal to the increasingly conservative high court. Using many of the same lawyers over the years, he engineered a series of lawsuits against the 1965 Voting Rights Act culminating in Shelby County v. Holder, the 2013 decision that curtailed the reach of the Voting Rights Act over designated states with a history of discrimination.

What percentage of “whites” and “Latinos” at Harvard are Jewish?

Anonymous wrote:The sound of white people crying over selective college admissions is amazing.

The lawsuits are being led by Asian Americans.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

Often there’s a significant international percentage as well.

Read the article; 14.5%, so whites 27% or so.

And the international admits can’t possibly be white people, right? There’s a whole world of international schools where people are applying to the ivies. Obviously, there are many in highly populated countries like China and India applying, but the international group has white people in it.

International can mean any race, white, Asian, black, Latino. It wasn't singled out in the list of races so it is likely factored into the various racial categories.

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Anonymous wrote:Should jump to 40 percent so if the Court rules like most everyone thinks it will.

I have seen estimates that are much higher.

SAT Math Scores (2020):
"Of those scoring above 700, 43% are Asian and 45% are white, compared to 6% Hispanic or Latino and 1% Black. Meanwhile, among those scoring between 300-390, 2% are Asian and 23% white, compared to 43% Hispanic or Latino and 26% Black."

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Anonymous wrote:Should jump to 40 percent so if the Court rules like most everyone thinks it will.

You don’t understand white supremacy. The Supreme Court isn’t going to let Asians tell a prestigious institution like Harvard how to select their student body. That won’t happen.

Harvard had to almost double the Asian percentage in the last 10 years already with the law suit LOL

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Anonymous wrote:Should jump to 40 percent so if the Court rules like most everyone thinks it will.

You don’t understand white supremacy. The Supreme Court isn’t going to let Asians tell a prestigious institution like Harvard how to select their student body. That won’t happen.

Asians made the Supreme court to rule no racial discrimination shortly.

Harvard should play by the rule.

Anonymous wrote:Should jump to 40 percent so if the Court rules like most everyone thinks it will.

You don’t understand white supremacy. The Supreme Court isn’t going to let Asians tell a prestigious institution like Harvard how to select their student body. That won’t happen.

Anonymous wrote:When the law suit started in 2014, Asian was 18.2%, and gradually increased to 30% this year

https://www.insidehighered.com/admissions/article/2019/04/01/share-asian-americans-hits-record-high-harvards-class-admitted

LMFAO

You can see how much there's no standard, and the whole thing is a joke

I think 17-18% was where Harvard wanted to keep for Asian percentage.