Harvard University 'affirmative action' discriminates against Asians

How is this only just happening? Harvard (and other top Ivies) have been doing it for years. There's at least one study (at least a year old) which showed the difference in standard across different minority groups (and the main result to take away from it, if I remember correctly, was that if you were Asian you had to do much better, if you were black you could afford to do worse).

Lets not forget that Harvard were the ones who started "holistic" admissions to limit the growing number of Jews who would have been admitted in the early 1900s. Affirmative action is nothing but history being rehashed.

Although, who can blame them. If they stopped with quotas and ended up with 95% Asians and Whites in an admission season, they would have been met with chants of racism.

Asians are about 5% of US population but make up 20% of Harvard students. obviously Harvard is panicking because Asian application are only increasing.

Why should they panic getting the top students?

Because they called racist if they end up with 95% Whites and Asians. In order to fill diversity quotas they hold ethnic groups to different standards, which in itself can be viewed as racist. It's virtually impossible to get into these liberal arts schools as a middle class White or an Asian, unless your test scores and extracurriculars are perfect. Latinos and Blacks are held to a different standard, even if they come from a similar economic background, and can get away with sub par scores.

In a way, it'd be like Oxbridge being attacked for having too many private school pupils when those applicants do have better grades.

But the difference here would be that there would not only be white students but also Asian (all kinds of Asians) students, meaning people who claim racism would then need to claim that it's racist exclusively only against black applicants. It'd be a lot more difficult to resonate.

Asian Americans have filed law suits against Harvard University because of its unfair practice of discriminating against Asians in favour of other minority groups.http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3083757/Asian-groups-file-complaint-Harvard-admission-practices.html

Asians are about 5% of US population but make up 20% of Harvard students. obviously Harvard is panicking because Asian application are only increasing.

I've been saying for ages 'positive discrimination' is not for minorities in general, but only select minorities.

Ehh, I doubt Oxbridge has quotas to fill in like in American universities, and it's probably not as to the extent as to what's going on in the US, and it's certainly not as bad the holistic admission system in the US.

Well according to the article you've provided Harvard has not yet been found to use affirmative action/positive discrimination in its admissions process. The group that has sued them have only claimed that the university uses it.



Because Harvard is a huge university and will take many international students.

hen I started attending school in UK, I was very shocked at how much the students take their education for granted and aren't that hard-working. For most Asians, we all believe that education has a great importance, and we work so hard because we want a good education

That's because we have these things called benefits, which pulls us backwards. It will be funny when it all explodes though, wonder who will pay the taxes.