this is chilling. thank you I guess for completely dropping any pretenses here. this system of well-roundedness was, as other people have alluded previously, invented to exclude high achieving ethnic groups ( as per the perception of the in-group ) from overrunning elite institutions of learning. this system is being employed to cap Asian admissions.
There is no cap on Asian admissions, and there never will be. The Asians that get rejected at the margin have similar profiles to White people who are rejected at the margin. If you think that this is incorrect, then I would love to see some supporting evidence, There is an abundance of available info due to the lawsuit, and none of it seems to have pointed to discrimination against Asians.
Diversity steps were taken by Eliot in the 1800s. Lowell took them in a dark direction, but he wasn’t the originator.
I’m really saddened that so many people are quick to jump on the “Harvard bad” bandwagon without actually knowing the facts or the history. It an incredible story
The current admissions process at this point is fairly refined, and the evaluation rubrics are public knowledge, and I think they do a fairly good job of getting the school the wide variety of students it needs.
