<p>A website <a href="http://harvardnotfair.org/">http://harvardnotfair.org/</a> (run by the supporters for Abigail Fisher v. Univ. of Texas) say so.</p>
<p>See the press release <a href="http://www.projectonfairrepresentation.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/POFR-Harvard-UNC-Wisconsin.pdf">http://www.projectonfairrepresentation.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/POFR-Harvard-UNC-Wisconsin.pdf</a></p>
<p>Yes, they can be sued. But the Texas case doesn’t provide a precedent that assures victory, as the decision was limited to public universities.</p>
<p>Harvard Admissions has been sued before, but the plaintiffs either withdrew their lawsuit or lost: <a href=“Bloomberg - Are you a robot?”>Bloomberg - Are you a robot?;
<p>Can Harvard be sued for discrimination? Sure.
They can also be sued for not being a ham sandwich. </p>
<p>Winning a case depends on a whole lot of factors.</p>
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<p>Not true. Private colleges that receive federal funds are covered by title VI. Unless Harvard doesn’t get any federal funding (which I doubt), it will be subject to federal anti-discrimination laws. However proving discrimination can be difficult.</p>
<p>Suits against colleges for discrimination just seem like sour grapes. Face it, not everyone gets into every school. Get over it.</p>
<p>I guess unless there’s proof that Harvard is somehow using a quota system (Regents of UC Berkeley v. Bakke) they can’t really do anything… only if they deem something unconstitutional/against established rights (like the Civil Rights Acts). </p>
<p>/this is how i study for ap gov</p>
<p>It looks like the group has filed a lawsuit against Harvard <a href=“http://studentsforfairadmissions.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/SFFA-v.-Harvard-Complaint.pdf”>http://studentsforfairadmissions.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/SFFA-v.-Harvard-Complaint.pdf</a></p>
<p>harvard’s not so dirty little secret
<a href=“First Jews, now Asians”>http://nypost.com/2014/11/29/first-jews-now-asians/</a></p>
The case against Harvard is moving forward.http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2015/5/4/race-based-lawsuit-update/
It will be hard to prove even though it is almost certainly true. Btw stanford is even more egregious, located on the west coast (more asians) drawing > 40% from California and is > 50% stem while harvard is around 20 or 30% stem yet it has a LOWER percentage of asians than harvard does.
i understand the frustration.
And I would like to ask if I can take God to the court?
Why i was not born in royal family??
Its getting more interesting. A group of 60 Asian American groups have filed a federal complaint against Harvard alleging discrimination against Asian Americans. http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2015/05/16/asian-american-groups-accuse-harvard-of-racial-bias-in-admissions/27438565/
Why not continue with holistic admissions, but simply take the race box off the application and treat people like individuals?
I recognize that all of this may be new and exciting news to MITprospect, but it’s the epitome of same-old, same-old. There’s nothing new here. You have an amorphous, fishing-expedition lawsuit funded by a right-wing millionaire where the only thing that has happened is procedural fencing that has limited (but not by as much as Harvard would have wished) the plaintiffs’ right to engage in discovery, probably severely enough to make it impossible for them to make their case unless they find some sort of “smoking gun” evidence of quotas. (If such evidence existed, it would have come out years ago. In my opinion. Many, many people, including Asian Americans, are involved in Harvard admissions decisions, and I would be surprised if you could find one of them who would not consider racial quotas repugnant.) And you have a group of activists whining to the Department of Education, asking it to do the (likely impossible) work of proving Harvard intentionally discriminated against students from ethnic Asian backgrounds. That has happened repeatedly in the past.
Meanwhile, admissions of ethnic Asians have substantially increased at Harvard and peer colleges since the Espenshade article was published six years ago. The article itself – which I believe upset a lot of admissions people and forced them to look hard at what they were doing – was based on data that are 18 years old at this point, and came from a number of colleges that may or may not have included Harvard. Harvard’s class of 2001, the admissions cohort studied in the article, was about 10% Asian-American; recent classes have been more than 20% self-identified Asian-American, with in all likelihood more in the refuse-to-disclose category. International admissions, too, have shifted from being primarily oriented towards English-speaking countries and Latin America to include ever-increasing numbers of east and south Asian students. The actual percentage of undergraduate students at Harvard today with an ethnic Asian background may approach 30%.
People, we need to leave the race and politics out of the Education!!
BTW, I am Asian immigrant!