Harvard Rated Asian-American Applicants Lower on Personality Traits: Lawsuit
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Re: Harvard Rated Asian-American Applicants Lower on Personality Traits: Lawsuit
#2>"[Harvard] lashed out at the founder of Students for Fair Admissions, Edward Blum, accusing him of using Harvard in an effort to orchestrate a challenge to race-conscious admissions that would go to the Supreme Court."
I feel that in 100 years we will look back on quotes like this and shake our heads at institutions like Harvard actually defending "race conscious admissions".
Reward people that do well and hold them up as examples for other people to follow.
Racial discrimination must end.
Re: Harvard Rated Asian-American Applicants Lower on Personality Traits: Lawsuit
#3Is it any surprise that the admissions officers who preside over racially biased processes give such mealy mouth statements?
So long as they don't say things that are overtly prejudiced against one group and affirm the progressive stack order, activist Judges seem to bless whatever they do.
Re: Harvard Rated Asian-American Applicants Lower on Personality Traits: Lawsuit
#4Why does a university have a personality test?
Re: Harvard Rated Asian-American Applicants Lower on Personality Traits: Lawsuit
#5There may be racial differences in personality, but it is implausible that as the proportion of Asians in the high-achieving student population rises, their personalities get just worse enough that the fraction of Asian students at Harvard stays about the same. Harvard admits this when it says that what brings the Asian fraction down to 18% is "demographic".
Elite universities are often accusing the broader society of racism, when in fact they are some of the most blatant perpetrators of racial discrimination.
Re: Harvard Rated Asian-American Applicants Lower on Personality Traits: Lawsuit
#6From the horse's mouth:
“We could fill our class twice over with valedictorians,” Harvard President
Drew Gilpin Faust told an audience at the Aspen Ideas Festival, sponsored
by the Aspen Institute and The Atlantic, on Monday. That means admissions
officers rely on intangibles like interesting essays or particularly unusual
recommendations to decide who comprises the 5.9 percent of applicants who
get in.
Faust's top tip for raising a Harvard man or woman: “Make your children
interesting!”
For parents and students alike, that’s both good news and bad news. The bad
news is that of course it’s much easier to say that than to actually make it
happen, though Faust recommended encouraging children to follow their
passions as a way to develop an interesting personality. It’s much easier to
complete a checklist, however daunting, than to actually be interesting.[1]
https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2014/06/how-to...
Re: Harvard Rated Asian-American Applicants Lower on Personality Traits: Lawsuit
#7Why does a university have a personality test?
That's how you maintain a certain reputation, create a harmonious atmosphere where nobody who would rock the boat gets in.
Re: Harvard Rated Asian-American Applicants Lower on Personality Traits: Lawsuit
#8From the horse's mouth: “We could fill our class twice over with valedictorians,” Harvard President Drew Gilpin Faust told an audience at the Aspen Ideas Festival, sponsored by the Aspen Institute and The Atlantic, on Monday. That means admissions officers rely on intangibles like interesting essays or particularly unusual recommendations to decide who comprises the 5.9 percent of applicants who get in. Faust's top t…
“Make your children interesting,” Faust said, while rubbing her thumb against her index and middle fingers and winking at the audience.
Re: Harvard Rated Asian-American Applicants Lower on Personality Traits: Lawsuit
#9Why does a university have a personality test?
Because they want something that provides a subjective element for making decisions.
Admissions is high-stakes for everyone, including Harvard. Having some opaque, non-mechanical criteria lets them pick and choose without giving as much of a lever to lawyers.
Re: Harvard Rated Asian-American Applicants Lower on Personality Traits: Lawsuit
#10This case is important because many elite American colleges have quietly copied Harvard's 15% cap on Asian students.