> Harvard's admissions policies do not have discrimination as a deliberate goal. Apparently this "personality rating" was initially included in the Harvard app

> Harvard's admissions policies do not have discrimination as a deliberate goal. Apparently this "personality rating" was initially included in the Harvard application process explicitly to discriminate against Jews: From the OP: > Harvard has been here before. “To prevent a dangerous increase in the proportion of Jews, I know at present only one way, which is at the same time straightforward and effective,” wrote A. Lawrence Lowell, Harvard’s president in the 1920s, “and that is a selection by a personal estimate of character on the part of the Admission authorities, based upon the probable value to the candidate, to the College and to the community of his admissions.” The opacity of its admissions procedure could veil what Lowell’s written correspondence would later disclose to be a fully intended policy of discrimination.