A Look At Harvard's Unfair Admissions Process

Asian Americans Royally Screwed to Make Room for Black and Hispanics

From Supreme Court Again Infuriates Liberals By Jared Taylor, American Renaissance

The Supreme Court’s decision on affirmative action and the reactions to it are the latest proof — as if any were needed — that politics in multiracial America are fractured beyond repair.

The best thing the decision did was demolish the idea that “diversity” on campus is so important that it justifies racial discrimination. As for the reactions, hysterical liberals — that is to say, Democrats and most of the media — genuinely seem to believe that the decision is a great victory for — guess what? — white supremacy. [Doug here: That's not true at all. It turns out that white admissions were right in line with their academic index. It was asians who were massively discriminated against to allow more Hispanics and Blacks. Anyone with sense of fairness can see it now. keep reading....]

First, let’s look at the racial discrimination in Harvard’s admissions policies, which was a big part of the case. Litigation often compels parties to cough up information they don’t want anyone to see.

The expert report was done by Peter Arcidiacono, is an economics professor at Duke, and used admissions data Harvard was forced to turn over. 

Table 5.3 below calculates what a Harvard class would have looked like if admissions had been based strictly on grades and test scores, or what Harvard called its “academic index.” 

If Harvard had randomly accepted whites, black, Hispanics and Asians from the “top decile,” or top 10 percent on the academic index, shown on the bottom line, the admitted class would have been 36.54 percent white, 0.76 percent black, 2.69 percent Hispanic, and 51.52 percent Asian. That would mean completely disregarded race. As you work up from the bottom line, you can see class composition if Harvard had ignored race but selected from the top 20 or 30 percent, etc.. What was the actual racial mix of admitted students?  That’s the blue line on the figure below:

Whites were 37.61 percent of the class — very close to the 36.54 percent that would have got in on merit. Blacks were 15.81 percent, or 22-1/2 times the number that would have been admitted on merit. Hispanics were 14.9 percent, or 5-1/2 times, and Asians were 24.86, or just under half the number that would have been admitted on pure academic index. 

Asians clearly paid the price so Harvard could let in so many blacks and Hispanics. 

Harvard was rigorously discriminating against Asians so as to admit favored minorities.

I noticed, from the report, that Legacy Admissions was a big factor in actual admissions as follows:

Athletes, Friends of the Dean or Director or Being a Child of a Staff or Faculty or an Alum Had Significant Advantages to Admission to Harvard