Giving preferential treatment to legacy, athletes, and donor applicants has led to less-qualified candidates being admitted. The applicants in these three groups are overwhelmingly white. Of course, there is the "personality" excuse for not admitting more Asians, but if Harvard only stopped the preferential treatment of the groups listed above, there would be more Asians at Harvard.
If Harvard has the right to prefer groups that are overwhelmingly white, then they also have the right to eliminate Asian applicants because of their personality test scores and lack of extracurricular activities. If they're forced to get rid of their secret quota, then all they have to do is put more weight on non-academic credentials to keep the share of Asian students below 30%.
If Harvard has the right to prefer groups that are overwhelmingly white, then they also have the right to eliminate Asian applicants because of their personality test scores and lack of extracurricular activities. If they're forced to get rid of their secret quota, then all they have to do is put more weight on non-academic credentials to keep the share of Asian students below 30%.
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MS, MSS and Graduate Cert
AAS, AS, BA, and BS
CLEP
Intro Psych 70, US His I 64, Intro Soc 63, Intro Edu Psych 70, A&I Lit 64, Bio 68, Prin Man 69, Prin Mar 68
DSST
Life Dev Psych 62, Fund Coun 68, Intro Comp 469, Intro Astr 56, Env & Hum 70, HTYH 456, MIS 451, Prin Sup 453, HRM 62, Bus Eth 458
ALEKS
Int Alg, Coll Alg
TEEX
4 credits
TECEP
Fed Inc Tax, Sci of Nutr, Micro, Strat Man, Med Term, Pub Relations
CSU
Sys Analysis & Design, Programming, Cyber
SL
Intro to Comm, Microbio, Acc I
Uexcel
A&P
Davar
Macro, Intro to Fin, Man Acc
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