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Harvard didn't reject you because you're Asian (gettingintohypsm.com)
3 points by mooshoofan on Dec 16, 2018 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment



In the hypothetical, with 100 asians and 1 black all applying with identical credentials, if the school picks the 1 black student and 1 of the 100 asians, then the school certainly is being racist. They may be saying that they are going for a diverse student body, but they are choosing the black student because that student is not like the others in 1 category - race. So they are using race as a factor, and in this hypothetical, the determining factor. The fairest thing would be to put all 101 applicant names into a hat and pick 2.




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