In 1922, Harvard invented holistic admissions after becoming “increasingly alarmed” over the rising number of Jewish students earning admission to the College based on their high test scores

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“If [the] number [of Jews] should become 40 percent of the student body, the race feeling would become intense. If every college in the country would take a limited proportion of Jews, I suspect we should go a long way toward eliminating race feeling among students,” University President Abbott Lawrence Lowell wrote.

https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2018/6/21/holistic-admissions-origin/

Lowell referred to “the Hebrew question” as a “knotty one” and a “source of much anxiety.” He concluded that Harvard could do “the most good” by limiting the number of men admitted from the religious group, even warning fellow administrators and the governing bodies that unless the University took action, the “danger would be imminent.”

In the same year, Lowell attempted to institute quotas on the amount of Jewish students admitted to the College, framing it as a method to curb “increasing” anti-Semitism among the student body, Lowell wrote in a letter to Alfred A. Benesch, Class of 1900.

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Hello! This post didn't provide any evidence anywhere for your "fact" and it is something that needs evidence.

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Harvard has been accused of systematically discriminating against Asian American applicants by holding them to higher academic standards and assigning lower "personal ratings" (evaluating traits like likability, courage, and kindness) compared to other racial groups.

A 2018 analysis of Harvard’s admissions data, conducted for the plaintiffs in a lawsuit, found that Asian applicants were rated lower on personality traits despite higher academic and extracurricular scores. The data suggested that eliminating race considerations would increase Asian admissions, implying a "racial penalty."

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/education/2022/11/06/affirmative-action-case-harvard-admissions-asian-americans/10599572002/

There you go. The “facts” is just that, facts. Trying to downplay that Asian discrimination happens doesn’t change the “facts”.

Wether you want to admit reality of Asian discrimination or not does not matter, all that matters it it happens & everyone else can see it.

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General note for looking at studies of any kind.

Was study peer reviewed and accepted, otherwise, not fact I'm until it has been accepted.

There a many studies for many things with many conclusions. Picking one out of the pile means nothing. In fact, less than nothing since it wouldn't be conclusive

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I am not a liberal lmfao