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Ethan R's avatar

Fair points, but you delude yourselves and your readers if you think Harvard is not and has not been - for a LONG time - discriminating blatantly against not just Caucasian applicants, but more specifically against Caucasian heterosexual males.

CC's avatar

Potatos - PoTAtos

Maybe if Harvard was more transparent about its enrollment numbers articles like this wouldn't have to be debated? Harmeet Dhillon, US Attorney for the Civil Rights Division has been rattling Harvard's cage for some time about this issue..

Mike Petrik's avatar

Perhaps, but Andrews’ sloppiness is disappointing nonetheless. That said, I don’t think her errors, however embarrassing, should be assumed to be attributable to dishonesty.

T.P. Graham's avatar

1. Admissions officers can tell race from (A) the person's name. (B) The personal essays, probably around 80% of which imply an ethnic origin (read the 2024 Harvard sample essays: https://www.thecrimson.com/topic/sponsored-successful-harvard-essays-2024/). (C) Extracurriculars

2. You think someone who's half-caucasian is caucasian, and Helen Andrews doesn't

3. You assume ethnic groups don't seek power for themselves. That's interesting

Pam Kingsley's avatar

Good points. Also...

"Arguably, Andrews’ misinterprets this data to justify a right-wing Woke-ism that mimics the worst impulses of the left."

Yes, right-wing Woke-ism (presumably, you mean antisemitism, neo-Nazism, anti-Socialism/Communism characteristics?) is a blight on all Conservatives.