Harvard Admissions Process Does Not Discriminate Against Asian-Americans, Judge Rules

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Harvard Does Not Discriminate Against Asian-Americans in Admissions, Judge Rules (Published 2019)

The lawsuit presented one of the biggest challenges to affirmative action in years, and is almost certain to reach the Supreme Court.

www.nytimes.com

A federal judge on Tuesday rejected claims that Harvard had discriminated against Asian-Americans in admissions, saying that the university had a right to choose a diverse class.
The challenge to the university’s admissions process came from a group hoping to overturn a longstanding Supreme Court precedent that allows race to be considered as one factor among many, but prohibits universities from using quotas in admissions.

The judge, Allison Burroughs, rejected the argument that Harvard was using affirmative action as a weapon against some races and a boon to others, and said that the university met the strict judicial standard for considering race in its admissions process.
In her decision, Judge Burroughs gave an eloquent defense of the benefits of diversity, and said that while the time might come when it would be possible to look beyond race in college admissions, that time was not yet here.

“For purposes of this case, at least for now, ensuring diversity at Harvard relies, in part, on race conscious admissions,” the judge said. “The students who are admitted to Harvard and choose to attend will live and learn surrounded by all sorts of people, with all sorts of experiences, beliefs and talents. They will have the opportunity to know and understand one another beyond race, as whole individuals with unique histories and experiences. It is this, at Harvard and elsewhere that will move us, one day, to the point where we see that race is a fact, but not the defining fact and not the fact that tells us what is important, but we are not there yet.”

The plaintiffs, Students for Fair Admissions, a nonprofit representing a group of Asian-American students rejected by Harvard, had accused the college of violating federal civil rights law by holding Asian-Americans, who as a group get better test scores and grades than other races, to a higher standard.
The three-week trial last October set off a national discussion about the role of race and ethnicity in college admissions. It led to sometimes bitter debate over whether the college admissions system was a beacon of meritocracy or a system that privileged some groups — like the children of alumni, wealthy donors and certain minorities — while penalizing others.

 

[LurkerSix]

If i remember correctly, the people that put them up to this, are the racist white people trying to get rid of affirmative action. They also had that girl sue Texas State because she didnt get in, claiming it was because she was white ect.

 

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[The Lonious Monk]

Basically, Asian Americans are trying to claim that high grades and SAT scores are all that ever mattered when getting selected for a school, and since they have the highest grades and SAT scores, they deserve to always get in over everyone else. While it's true, that grades and SAT scores matter the most, they have never been the only important metrics. If you have high grades and SAT scores you should get in over others more often than not, and Asian students do get in over others more often than not.

 

[Dwayne]

Fuck them Asians

 

[LurkerSix]

Basically, Asian Americans are trying to claim that high grades and SAT scores are all that ever mattered when getting selected for a school, and since they have the highest grades and SAT scores, they deserve to always get in over everyone else. While it's true, that grades and SAT scores matter the most, they have never been the only important metrics. If you have high grades and SAT scores you should get in over others more often than not, and Asian students do get in over others more often than not.

To keep the campus diverse they wont let a certain demographic take over enrollment. This lawsuit is bullshit and is funded by white people trying to do away with affirmative action laws. Same people that sued Texas a few years back on behalf of that white girl, saying it was discriminatory against her because she was white and if she was black she would of got in. But these asians are too stupid and racist to realize if affirmative action went away, there would be even less asian in these schools. Theres more than enough rich, connected, white people in America to fill these schools just like they did before affirmative action cam into law.

This is a long article but worth the read. I'll quote some important parts

The lawsuit against Harvard that could change affirmative action in college admissions, explained

Harvard is on trial for allegedly discriminating against Asian-American applicants. Here’s what you need to know.

www.vox.com

In November 2014, Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA) filed its lawsuit, alleging that Harvard is “employing racially and ethnically discriminatory policies and procedures in administering the undergraduate admissions program” that are biased against Asian-American applicants.

To remedy this, SFFA argues that Harvard, and ultimately all colleges, should no longer consider race in its admissions process, and that Supreme Court rulings in support of affirmative action have “been built on mistakes of fact and law.”

Identifying the plaintiffs in this trial is a bit more complicated. SFFA represents a group of anonymous Asian-American plaintiffs rejected from Harvard. The individual plaintiffs, who are not expected to testify, say they are remaining anonymous to avoid harassment for their part in the lawsuit.

Because of this, the public face of the trial has become Edward Blum, a white, 66-year-old legal strategist. Blum leads the Project on Fair Representation, a group founded in 2005 to “support litigation that challenges racial and ethnic classifications and preferences in state and federal courts.” Blum also created SFFA to “restore the original principles of our nation’s civil rights movement” by completely eliminating the use of race in college admissions. In addition to Harvard, the group is also suing the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on similar grounds.

Blum is known in legal circles for his efforts to get cases before the Supreme Court, all of them involving race in one way or another. In 1995, he was part of a group that brought Bush v. Vera before the court, successfully convincing the court to redraw several majority-minority electoral districts in Texas. He was also instrumental in Shelby County v. Holder, the case which gutted a key portion of the Voting Rights Act in 2013.

But Blum is perhaps best known for his work with Abigail Fisher, a white woman who argued in a pair of Supreme Court Cases in 2013 and 2016 that she was denied a spot at the University of Texas Austin due to her race.

Up until now, most cases about race in college admissions have been brought by white plaintiffs like Fisher, who argue that they are harmed by “reverse discrimination” and therefore pushed out of colleges by less-qualified applicants of color. Those cases have led to restrictions in how affirmative action can be used, but no case has actually ended the practice in its entirety.

When the Reagan administration addressed the allegations of discrimination against Asian Americans in the late 1980s, it ignored that much of the claimed discrimination may have benefitted white students, instead arguing that the biggest hurdle affecting Asian-American applicants was the affirmative action programs aimed at helping racial minorities. As Vox’s Alvin Chang notes, Asian American students accused the Reagan administration of “racial mascoting.” Affirmative action is now often framed as hurting Asian-American college applicants.

Civil rights groups like the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund say this framing pits Asian Americans against other minorities and also ignores how affirmative action benefits those from less-represented Asian-American and Pacific Islander subgroups. Research from academics Karthick Ramakrishnan and Janelle Wong has shown that most Asian Americans support affirmative action, although support has dropped off considerably among Chinese Americans.

 

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[SneakDZA]

If they really cared they would go after legacy admissions and people who pay to get their kids in first.

But that's not what this was really ever about and we all know it.