Justice Department Says Harvard Hurts Asian Americans’ Admissions Prospects With ‘Personal Rating’

As we all know, Affirmative action is NOT there for all minorities.
Asians have been hammered on elite college admissions to make way for other minorities (mainly Blacks) who will never be able to make the cut without Huge 'balancing' bias to get them in.

It's really quite an insulting/Racist Ruse too
To say they like Black "personalities", "character traits" better than Asians!
I mean 1/3 of young black men have been in the Penal system vs a miniscule amount of Asians.
Personality? Character?

Justice Department Says Harvard Hurts Asian Americans’ Admissions Prospects With ‘Personal Rating’
Government calls rating ‘vague and elusory’ in filing in closely-watched affirmative-action lawsuit
Aug 30, 2018

The U.S. Department of Justice says Harvard University puts Asian-American applicants at a disadvantage through the school’s use of a subjective “personal rating” in the admissions process, according to a new court filing in a federal lawsuit challenging the legality of affirmative action.

The statement of interest filed Thursday by the Justice Department supported the claims made by the plaintiffs, who have sued Harvard for allegedly limiting the number of Asian-American students it admits and holding them to a higher standard than students of other races.
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In criticizing the personal rating, the Justice Department was referring to one component of Harvard’s undergraduate admissions process that evaluates applicants based, in part, on a subjective assessment of character traits....​

Also see NY Times (as WSJ is subscription)
Justice Dept. Backs Suit Accusing Harvard of Discriminating Against Asian-American Applicants
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/30/us/politics/asian-students-affirmative-action-harvard.html

...The filing said that Harvard “uses a vague ‘personal rating’ that harms Asian-American applicants’ chances for admission and may be infected with racial bias; engages in unlawful racial balancing; and has never seriously considered race-neutral alternatives in its more than 45 years of using race to make admissions decisions.”..."​

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What does Race Neutral or Race Blind admissions look like?
(But keep in mind Cal does have a larger percent of Hispanics and Asians than most states.)

Why Caltech Is in a Class by Itself | Minding The Campus
By Russell K. Nieli - Dec 9, 2010

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Toward a Pure Meritocracy

The stats on Caltech's students and faculty are simply spellbinding. An entering Caltech freshman last year who received a 770 on the math SAT would be exceeded in this area by 3/4 of his fellow entering freshmen. Many Caltech freshmen got a perfect 800 on their math SAT, while a near-perfect 1560 combination score placed an incoming freshmen at only the 75th percentile of his..classmates..

...the most striking difference from all other elite universities - including institutions like MIT and the University of Chicago which forgo athletic recruitment - is Caltech's complete Indifference to Racial balancing.
In a state and a region of the country with the largest Hispanic population, Caltech's entering freshmen class in 2008 was less than 6% Hispanic (13 out of 236). The unwillingness to lower standards for a larger Black representation is even more striking - less than 1% (2/236) of Caltech's 2008 entering freshmen were listed as "non-Hispanic black".
This "Underrepresentation" of Blacks and Hispanics, of course, was more than made up for by the Huge "Overrepresentation" of Asians. Only 4% of the U.S. population, Asians made up a whopping 40% of the incoming freshmen class in 2008, a slightly larger proportion than the 39% figure for whites....
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Forgot link for WSJ part of OP:
https://www.wsj.com/articles/justic...ons-prospects-with-personal-rating-1535637680