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From the Boston Globe:

The majority of Harvard’s incoming class is nonwhite, as the Trump administration focuses on affirmative action
For the first time in Harvard University’s history, the majority of students accepted into the incoming freshman class are not white, a milestone for an institution that prides itself on educating future presidents, CEOs, and world leaders.

But Harvard’s push to broaden the diversity of its student ranks comes as the Trump administration intensifies its focus on affirmative action policies and suggests it will investigate how colleges shape the racial makeup of their campuses.

The US Justice Department is preparing to redirect resources from its civil rights division toward investigating and suing universities over affirmative action admissions policies deemed to discriminate against white applicants, The New York Times reported this week.

On Wednesday, the Trump administration said it had no broad plans to investigate whether college and university admissions programs discriminate against students based on race and that it was looking into a single complaint from a coalition of Asian-American groups filed in 2015. The coalition filed an administrative complaint against Harvard University, alleging that the school and other Ivy League institutions are using racial quotas that shut out high-scoring Asians.


Despite at least one glaring error in hiring faculty, I think most people would believe that Harvard's admittance is merit based.
But could they be purposely manipulating their enrollment to achieve racial quotas?
And would it be bad if they were?

Harvard is trying to eradicate the Asians from their campus..??

Read macs... Harvard is merit based.

I'm not sure why this is a surprise. Harvard is a private institution which takes students from around the world. The world is a majority nonwhite... I would expect the demographics of the college would tend that way over time.

not quite that simple... it's not as if they pick the best and that's that... they have a threshold for accomplishment that one must meet to be considered, but after that threshold is met, there's not much one can do (aside from not being white) to help themselves get accepted...

I'm going to revise my original statement. I went and read Harvard's policies.
They "take race into account " But state nothing about hitting certain quotas. Their claim is that they want to have a diverse student body in both a racial and non racial sense. The arguments are interesting and very imprecise. Essentially it boils down to "they can do whatever they want "

Interestingly opel is complaining about it helping anyone who isn't white... but I'm not sure that's accurate any longer. I believe pushing for a diverse student population in colleges which are extraordinarily popular has a greater detrimental effect on Asians at this time (or that has been what's suggested).

Takeaway.... not sure I would call Harvard's policy affirmative action as they simply state they are going to take race into account... not that they're going to hit some quota...moreover... not sure whites should be complaining about that as it likely helps some get in, since they aren't asian....

Think of it this way... back when I went to college I suspect the same sort of policies helped me out as well. All my classmates were from some extraordinarily expensive private schools along the eastern seaboard... I was a Seattle guy from a public school. Odds are that there were some equally qualified Exeter applicants trying to get into my school, but the admissions thought it would be more interesting to pull some people from outside the normal student body pool and grabbed me... add a West coast boy to the mix... there weren't that many of us there.

You certainly are " Outside the Norm " I'll give you that....

What's your point Vicky? What's ironic about my reply?

Don't i always?

For the record I wasn't complaining... i don't dare who they do or don't accept over at Harvard... schools like that aren't exactly meeting places for brilliant minds...

FIFY....we are all aware of your superiority Vicki

Diverse in race and non-race, but not in political ideology. Get in step, or our faculty and liberal students will berate you, and tell your speakers they cannot expose the student body to diverse (or opposing) opinions... lest it "trigger" them.

Bastids...

We DO NOT have a quota, we do have goals.

He doesn't need any help....he does just fine in the jackass dept.

It's all he could think up at the time...

I'm sorry about your short stick

I completely agree with both your bones 1 and 2 (minus the short-stick comment that has TW in a tizzy).

In your last paragraph you're saying that schools charge higher tuition to foreign students. Is that true?

And, at least for the Europeans, it's a steal compared to tuition there.

Tail.. it's a university which accepts students from around the world. Over time the top universities will trend towards the make up of the global population. I don't think they are accepting that many people out of country yet (I think they state how many international students they have and it isn't 90% yet) but that will push the numbers towards global ethnic makeup over time. Probably more quickly since Europe has much more well accepted universities making it more attractive for non Europeans to go to the USA for college than their own countries.

Incidentally .. the article is also wrong . This isn't the first year this has happened... they just want to say that to make you panic. It's also not the only school. The article is trying to manipulate you.

LOL!
I ask a question. And you claim I'm being "manipulated" into "panic".

In the words of the immortal B. Bunny: What a maroon.

Tail... note i said it is trying to make you panic and it is trying to manipulate you. I never said you are being manipulated (Not saying you aren't either... I reserve the right to make that decision later).

are we assuming that those accepted were not qualified?

No.
For argument's sake we'll assume they're all quite qualified.

love that!

Just say somethin about his momma..

That never stopped Victor.