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SenseiMaster
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SenseiMaster
8y ago
I'm guessing that the poor students that are academically decent enough for Harvard are mostly Asian with some children of European immigrants and a few of African immigrants. I think that Asians are even more represented in the set of
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8y ago
Or it works in Harvard's preference by potentially hiding the academic disparities of the different ethnic groups studying at Harvard. If everyone's score is truncated at 800 on a test out of 1200, then you can't tell the dif
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8y ago
It annoys me how every official statement from institutions supporting affirmative action doesn't seem to acknowledge that racial discrimination is happening and is actively harming individuals. Any reasonable person would at least ack
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8y ago
It most definitely is a moral issue when students are racially discriminated against. There is a trade-off between racial diversity and racial discrimination. What you're saying here is that non-Asian leaders who are individually worse
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8y ago
It's not low hanging fruit by any means. I'm guessing it would raise the Asian American population by 10s of % at all the top tier schools. The set of students who are both poor and almost meets Ivy League standards is most likely
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8y ago
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