Presiding Over the Harvard Admissions Trial: A Judge Who Was Rejected From Harvard

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"Judge Allison D. Burroughs, the daughter of a Harvard graduate, sought to be a Harvard graduate herself, but did not get in.

Her rejection suddenly became an issue in the trial on Monday, when someone going by the name ‘Veritas in Diversitas’ sent a mass email to the reporters covering the trial suggesting that Judge Burroughs was biased against Harvard because the college had not accepted her.

‘Federal Judge Hides Her Own Painful History of Harvard Rejection,’ was the title of the email." …

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/22/us/harvard-admissions-trial-judge-burroughs.html

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If you want to exclude every judge who applied to either Harvard College or Harvard Law School, you aren’t going to have many judges left to choose from. .

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Besides, finding a judge who did not go to Harvard would be a tall order. It turns out that nine of the 13 judges in the >>Boston courthouse went to Harvard, records show, not including three judges in Springfield and Worcester or the >>magistrate judges.

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Yea and where you go to school doesn’t matter :-@

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Whichever decision Burroughs makes, it’s going to be appealed, anyway.

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Move on.

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To me this is the most interesting quote in the article and has nothing to do with the judge non-issue.

From Dean Khurana

“We’re not trying to mirror the socioeconomic or income distribution of the United States,” he said. “What we’re trying to do is identify talent.”

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That is definitely ONE of the things they are trying to do, but not exclusively.

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Burroughs is an unusual name for an Asian…

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Not sure what you mean by “That”, but you would be correct about identifying talent (obviously not exclusively or even primarily), but unlikely with respect to the SES or income distribution, given how Harvard students’ family income distribution skewed extremely upward compared to that of the US.