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Harvard Hit With Racial Bias Complaint

Posted by Soulskill on from the standardizing-the-admissions-voodoo dept.

An anonymous reader writes: A coalition of 64 organizations filed a complaint against Harvard on Friday alleging the university discriminates against Asian-American applicants hoping to attend classes there. "Many studies have indicated that Harvard University has been engaged in systemic and continuous discrimination against Asian-Americans during its very subjective 'Holistic' college admissions process." One such study shows Asian-Americans had to score an average of 140 points higher than white students on their SAT test to have an equal chance of getting in. The complaint seeks a federal investigation and demands Harvard "immediately cease and desist from using stereotypes, racial biases and other discriminatory means in evaluating Asian-American applicants."

4 of 529 comments (clear)

  1. Harvard Yard by jfdavis668 · · Score: 1, Funny

    It's because they can't say "Pahk the Cah At Hahvad Yahd".

  2. Re:Something DOES Stink at Harvard by BlackHawk-666 · · Score: 3, Funny

    That's because most of the second year syllabus is written and examined in Yiddish!

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  3. They also discriminate against dumb people by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    I am getting all the idiots together to file a class action lawsuite against Harvard. I should find a bunch of them here on this board. So what say you. Want to get together and sue these elite entitled white bastards. Just because i'm a moron and can't pass the classes does not mean that I should be kept out of the elite ivory league brunch parties. I want to party with the Kennedys and the Gores.

  4. Re:Affirmative Action by Bing+Tsher+E · · Score: 2, Funny

    Why are you spelling Kennedy so funny?