According to a New York Times report, in Harvard’s “holistic” admission process, it scores applicants in five categories — “academic,” “extracurricular,” “athletic,” “personal” and “overall.” They are ranked from 1 to 6, with 1 being the best. SFFA analysis shows that while Asian American students scored higher than students of any other racial or ethnic group on academic and extracurricular categories, Harvard admission office always “rated Asian-American applicants lower than others on traits like “positive personality,” likability, courage, kindness and being “widely respected,” and “often without even meeting them (Asian applicants).”
SEFA analysis found these low personal ratings diminished many Asian American applicants’ chances of being admitted. Thus, despite increasing numbers of Asian American applicants over the years, Asian American students admitted as a percentage of Harvard’s freshman class has constantly hovered around 20 percent since 1993, even though the Asian American population has more than doubled since then.
Harvard’s discrimination against Asian Americans today has been compared to its well documented effort to artificially limit the number of Jews being admitted in the 1920s by using so called characteristic traits in addition to test scores and grades.
Harvard, of course, vigorously denies that it ever engaged in any discrimination against Asian Americans. Yet, SFFA found out that “Harvard conducted an internal investigation into its admissions policies in 2013 and found a bias against Asian-American applicants. But Harvard never made the findings public or acted on them.” SFFA added, “University officials did concede that its 2013 internal review found that if Harvard considered only academic achievement, the Asian-American share of the class would rise to 43 percent from the actual 19 percent.”
http://thefederalist.com/2018/06/19...y-cluing-racism-underlying-identity-politics/
SEFA analysis found these low personal ratings diminished many Asian American applicants’ chances of being admitted. Thus, despite increasing numbers of Asian American applicants over the years, Asian American students admitted as a percentage of Harvard’s freshman class has constantly hovered around 20 percent since 1993, even though the Asian American population has more than doubled since then.
Harvard’s discrimination against Asian Americans today has been compared to its well documented effort to artificially limit the number of Jews being admitted in the 1920s by using so called characteristic traits in addition to test scores and grades.
Harvard, of course, vigorously denies that it ever engaged in any discrimination against Asian Americans. Yet, SFFA found out that “Harvard conducted an internal investigation into its admissions policies in 2013 and found a bias against Asian-American applicants. But Harvard never made the findings public or acted on them.” SFFA added, “University officials did concede that its 2013 internal review found that if Harvard considered only academic achievement, the Asian-American share of the class would rise to 43 percent from the actual 19 percent.”
http://thefederalist.com/2018/06/19...y-cluing-racism-underlying-identity-politics/
