Save time by listening to our audio articles as you multitaskStudents for Fair Admissions , a non-profit organisation, which is a plaintiff in both of the affirmative action cases before the Supreme Court, argues that 51% of Harvard’s class should be Asian-American if academics alone were the sole consideration. Harvard’s first-year students for 2021-22 were 53% white and 24% Asian, an increase from previous years but a far cry from 51%.
The court has in the past ruled that race could be considered among other admissions criteria, on the grounds that everyone on campus benefits from a diverse student body. This is what Harvard andsay they are doing without discriminating against Asian-Americans, an argument supported by an analysis commissioned by Harvard and written by David Card, a Nobel prize-winning economist.
Lots of universities have concerns beyond recruiting the best and brightest. Most, with the exception of the richest institutions, need to worry about financial solvency. This requires generous donors and a certain number of students paying full tuition. “Until someone drops another $2bn in our endowment, we will continue to be need-sensitive,” says Joanne Berger-Sweeney, president of Trinity College, a selective liberal-arts college in Connecticut.
Harvard reported that 16% of its class that will graduate in 2025 has at least one parent who attended Harvard. This tends to benefit white students: 19% of white, 15% of Asian, 9% of Hispanic and 6% of black students were legacies. Peter Arcidiacono, an economist at Duke University and expert witness forfound that when legacy preferences are removed, the number of white admissions falls by about 4%, while the number of black, Hispanic and Asian ones increases by 4-5%.
Other non-academic factors also come into play. Athletes are four times more likely than non-athletes to be admitted to elite private institutions. In Mr Arcidiacono’s study of Harvard, removing athletic preferences decreased white admissions by 6% and increased the number of Hispanic and Asian students by 7-9%. Children of faculty and staff are also given special consideration.
Maybe they should stop spending money on diversity and equality officers for every department and get back to teaching.
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None of those are based on race, which we had decided was a particularly pernicious form of discrimination.
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