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> "if you're a certain skin color, you're too stupid, to compete on merit" Hold on. You realize Harvard's policies have historically been designed to favor Whi
by petilon 4y ago
> "if you're a certain skin color, you're too stupid, to compete on merit"
Hold on. You realize Harvard's policies have historically been designed to favor Whites, right? The whole "holistic review" process was invented to favor Whites. See https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2019/03/history-privilege-elite-college-admissions/585088/ https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2019/03/histor...
- hot_gril 4y agoSounds like they've been excluding Asian students for a long time then.
- cuteboy19 4y agoSpecifically, it was invented because Jewish people performed too well on objective metrics and of course we cannot have too many Jews. So they did away with those pesky objective metrics and came up with an opaque system that no one could easily audit but at the same time they could easily apply their racial biases On a completely separate and unrelated note Harvard is also getting rid of objective metrics now.
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