Additional information can be found in this Crimson article from last month:
So more like Princeton and some of its other peers.
Harvard too is covering their tuchis by adding the “diversity” essay (and four others so to not be too obvious), so that they can consider the person’s life experience as a particular racial minority in their “holistic” admissions process. All others can figure out some way to answer this, when the correct answer will never be, “Even though I’m not of the target race, I have done/been/lived/participated…” This too will be challenged in court, and the supreme court will clarify their ruling to mean that colleges cannot use this as a work around in order to continue racial preferences in admissions. Stay tuned for more lawsuits.
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There is always a work around. They know the racial makeup of every high school
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You might be right. My feeling is that SCOTUS, which has suffered a severe downturn in public opinion, does not care about this issue anymore in the sense of further expending its diminished capital on marginal elitist concerns about access to prestige social spaces. I doubt it will use up cycles further on the fine points of whether a handful of students get into the ten most selective schools vs. the twenty most selective schools. The wording and approach Harvard and other schools are now using is the new normal, at least for many years.
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SCOTUS doesn’t care about public opinion. Their job is to interpret the law and discrimination based on race is illegal.
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Temporarily closed for review
I’m reopening this thread but with the caveat that this needs to stay non political or the discussion needs to move to the political forum.
Please use this thread to discuss the Harvard essays only and not the SCOTUS ruling.
Thank you.
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