Your intended major affects your application and Harvard is concerned about yield too

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It has not yet been extablished that there is , “discrimination against Asian Americans.” It’s the plaintiff’s claim.

The fact that STEM is where the congestion occurs does not mean discrimination against STEM majors.

There are majors that would love to have a more diverse applicant pool. But they aren’t STEM.

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An interesting read today - https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/10/21/harvard-admissions-affirmative-action-221669 dealing with data from the 1990 case, written by a (then) Crimson reporter-student.

[the data collected by the Education Department] showed the athletes and so-called legacies who were actually accepted had lower SAT scores than the rest of the class and were also deemed less attractive candidates by the admissions officers conducting Harvard’s process.

I think we hear on CC a lot that legacies are generally better-qualified than the general pool. For those accepted, that appears not to be so. Athletes - well we knew they had lower academic qualifications generally, they have an entire system devoted to ensuring they aren’t TOO low.

For the Class of 1992, Harvard sought to admit 2,040 applicants, 135 from the 17-prep-school list and 61 from the Andover and Exeter docket.

“Sought to” sounds like a quota?

There’s some interesting race stuff too I’ll not include in this thread.

This document is for the class of 2018 - “Reading Procedures”: https://www.politico.com/f/?id=00000166-9690-d166-a77e-9f9c92f10001

From the article linked above with the actual docs. https://www.politico.com/blogs/under-the-radar/2018/10/21/anti-asian-discrimination-harvard-admissions-921162