<p>
</p>
<p>As an Asian-American who really doesn’t like affirmative action, I ain’t complaining.</p>
<p>^ Affirmative action doesn’t help the truly socioeconomic ally disadvantaged. However, it impacts Asian applicants in that Asians aren’t equitably compared to other ethnicities and instead are held to a higher standard within their own ethnic group. This basically means that Asians are only competing against other Asians for a small number of spots (160).</p>
<p>Actually, the small number of spots is 169. .22x772=169. Those nine spots matter!</p>
<p>Affirmative action…? no offense @314159264 I don’t think you truly understand what affirmative action is. Accepting URMs is not automatically affirmative action. They obviously are qualified students to be accepted to HARVARD. It is why hate and inequality exists because of such ridiculous and erroneous assumptions like yours. Maybe you should do some research on the subject. Don’t take your personal frustration out on system because as an Asian American, you feel “discriminated” against in the college admissions process. Harvard is a community of diversity and maybe you are not ready to handle that…</p>
<p>That’s my bad with the math, thanks for the correction! Here’s to being one of the 169. Thirteen squared. It’s a nice number.</p>
<p>lol @ 69</p>
<p>hahahaha</p>
<p>My first post on this thread. I’ve been tempted to post many times before when the issue of “affirmative action” came up but I had held my tongue. Yet before posters start lamenting (yet again) the factor of race in admissions processes, please keep in mind that the term “affirmative action” doesn’t truly exist in the sense of quotas (see: “the small number of spots is 169”). Yes, it is true that race is a factor in the admissions process. However, this is not to fill in a number of designated spots to x ethnic group, it is simply another effort to increase the diversity of the student body.</p>
<p>Just like Harvard wants students with a broad range of interests and passions, Harvard wants students of different ethnic and cultural backgrounds. The boost an applicant with an interesting extracurricular receives and the boost an applicant with an interesting ethnic / cultural background receives are inherently the same. I’m tired of posters lamenting what they perceive as “affirmative action” as somehow a unique or idiosyncratic part of admissions. </p>
<p>In fact, if you look at the early numbers, minority groups are not coddled or given special treatment. 772 students were accepted, with 9.6% of accepted students being African-American (about 75 students). 4,245 applied, with 9.1% of students being African-American (about 386 students). If there were true quotas, the percent of accepted African-American students from the pool of African-American applicants would be skewed, but if you do the math, about 19% of African-American students that applied were accepted. This is congruent with the overall admittance rate for Early Action.</p>
<p>Is the Early acceptance rate as high as 20%? And if so what percent of those will be athletes?</p>
<p>It’s 18.25%. And I do not know the % of athletes admitted early.</p>
<p>150 at most i believe</p>
<p>i agree with @deliwp
a plethora of bitter Asian americans and Caucasians will lash out at the few minorities that got accepted. It is with that attitude that you were rejected/ deferred in the very first place…</p>
<p>Inside, you know it does hold some truth.</p>
<p>What do you mean?</p>
<p>Harvard is very transparent on URM acceptance.</p>
<p>There is nothing wrong with it.</p>
<p>^agreed. </p>
<pre><code> .
</code></pre>
<p>Im just trying to be one of the 77 latino students accepted but wow these numbers are steep</p>
<p>So, statistically speaking, I was most likely deferred. I think I can live with that.</p>
<p>I dont think i can live with deferral D: this month and a half wait alone has killed me…</p>
<p>^Truth. I would honestly be rejected than be deferred. The 13 hour wait that’s left is killing me, I doubt that I could wait another 3 months.</p>
<p>Wow, they took a high percentage.</p>
<p>I don’t think I’m going to be able to sleep tonight…</p>