[argumate]

Harvard University has been named in a complaint by a group of several dozen Asian Americans claiming discrimination in the university admissions process. They make the statistically justified claim that Asians need higher grades and test scores to be admitted.

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Yet despite the alleged injustice, more than 20 per cent of the students admitted are Asian American, while Asian Americans make up only about 6 per cent of the US population. Since one can expect ability to be evenly distributed across all ethnic groups, this looks less like injustice than a problematical definition of “better-qualified”.

http://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/2106030/why-asian-americans-claim-harvard-admissions-bias-misses

if your academic results don’t qualify you to get into Harvard, why should your Harvard results qualify you to get into anything else ya fuckin’ walnut

[mitigatedchaos]

Just do it by socio-economic status and ignore race entirely.  Insomuch as socioeconomic status is not distributed equally by race, this will alter your school’s incoming social balance.

But of course, you, thinking it’s about work times ability, are ignoring that the purpose of Harvard is to some degree about politics and connections, not advancing the national interest through maximizing graduating class economic potential.

In other words, just what is it that Harvard qualifies one to get in to?  Perhaps not the same thing as MIT.