Harvard: Race can only help, never harm, applicants’ chances

[rangerrebew]

Harvard: Race can only help, never harm, applicants’ chances
By COLLIN BINKLEYOctober 15, 2018
 
BOSTON (AP) — Harvard University intentionally uses a vague “personal rating” to reject Asian-American applicants in favor of students from other racial backgrounds, according to lawyers on one side of a trial that began Monday and carries weighty implications for dozens of other U.S. colleges.

Harvard’s legal team denied any discrimination in its opening statement at Boston’s federal courthouse, saying race is just one factor that’s considered and can only help a student’s chances of getting admitted. In its hour-long opening, lawyers for Students for Fair Admissions accused Harvard of intentionally discriminating against Asian-Americans through a personal rating score that measures character traits such as “courage” and “likeability.”

https://apnews.com/cf75643781a84d109a276104af915288

[rangerrebew]

This would seem to indicate, then, Harvard discriminates against white candidates. 

[Sanguine]

Ummm, if admission is competitive and race helps some then logically it has to harm others.

[GtHawk]

This would seem to indicate, then, Harvard discriminates against white candidates. 

So Harvard is saying that Caucasian is no longer a race, since being Caucasian only harms a n applicants chances?

[The_Reader_David]

This would seem to indicate, then, Harvard discriminates against white candidates. 

Probably not.  Whites (as a group) get a boost from some of them being "legacy", meaning they have an ancestor who went to Harvard.  Harvard discriminates mostly against Asians and Asian-Americans.  They neither get a boost for being an "underrepresented minority" nor from "legacy" admission. Of course if you're white and aren't legacy, then, you'd better have a 4.0, lots of extra-curricular activities of a politically correct sort, and rich parents.

[Sanguine]

Probably not.  Whites (as a group) get a boost from some of them being "legacy", meaning they have an ancestor who went to Harvard.  Harvard discriminates mostly against Asians and Asian-Americans.  They neither get a boost for being an "underrepresented minority" nor from "legacy" admission. Of course if you're white and aren't legacy, then, you'd better have a 4.0, lots of extra-curricular activities of a politically correct sort, and rich parents.

So, you appear to be saying that non-legacy white students are discriminated against.

[mountaineer]

Probably not.  Whites (as a group) get a boost from some of them being "legacy", meaning they have an ancestor who went to Harvard.

Al Gore III AKA Albert A. Gore III
Born: 19-Oct-1982
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Occupation: Relative
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Al Gore's son
    High School: St. Albans School
    University: BA, Harvard University (2005)

    Reckless Driving over 100 MPH, Laguna Hills, CA (4-Jul-2007)
    Drug Possession: Marijuana Laguna Hills, CA (4-Jul-2007)
    Drug Possession: Marijuana Bethesda, MD (19-Dec-2003)
    Driving While Intoxicated Fort Myer, VA (5-Sep-2002)
    Reckless Driving 97 MPH in a 55 MPH zone, Norfolk, NC (12-Aug-2000, charges dropped)
    Risk Factors: Marijuana, Obesity

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