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IRONICALLY, Harvard released this information only because it needed to convince the Department of Education that the College's admissions did not illegally discriminate against Asian-Americans. Although it once insistently down-played the preference given to legacies and athletes, Harvard changed its tune when these preferences were useful as an excuse for its suspiciously low rates of Asian-American admissions. But now that the Department of Education has exonerated the College, Harvard officials are again attempting to discount the significance of legacy and athletic preferences...
...Stanford University Dean of Undergraduate Admissions Jean H. Fetter after hearing comments Harvard admissions officers wrote on application folders of Asian-American students. The comments were drawn from an Education Department report obtained by The Crimson under the Freedom of Information...
...concluded from the file review that both Asian-American and white legacy applicants were given `tips' for their legacy status. OCR observed, however, that there were significantly fewer Asian-American applicants than white applicants in our sample of approximately 2000 Summary Sheets, who had the legacy status, and fewer still, who had several generations of lineage at Harvard...
With respect to the positive weight or `tip' assertedly given to Asian-American applicants, there were few comments in the approximately 1000 Summary Sheets which reflected this. The only comment suggesting an ethnic tip was found on a Filipino applicant's Summary Sheets which stated: "The number of Phillipino (sic) students in the pool is very small. Given the scores and support I don't see a problem." It should be noted that this applicant received a 2 POR and had strong ratings in all individual rating categories...
Joshua Li '92, co-chair of the Asian-American Association captured their sentiments best: "We understand that in the future Asian-American students will receive these tips as well." In other words, discrimination is perfectly acceptable as long as it's not my kids who have to face it. It doesn't matter whether the admissions process treats the disadvantaged fairly as long as all racial minorities are represented...