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LAST week, the Department of Education found no evidence that Harvard had illegally discriminated against Asian-American applicants. The Department evidently accepted the University's defense that suspiciously low admission rates for Asian-Americans result from their underrepresentation in "favored groups"--one of which is children of Harvard alumni...
Through its investigation, the Education Department determined that between 1979 and 1989 Harvard accepted 13.2 percent of Asian-American applicants while accepting some 17.4 percent of white applicants. Harvard officials countered by noting that Asian-Americans now account for 20 percent of the Class of 1994 compared to 6 percent in the Class...
After two years of scrutinizing Harvard's admissions policies, the U.S. Department of Education said yesterday it could find no evidence that the College either used quotas or otherwise illegally discriminated against Asian-American applicants during the last decade...
Though the Education Department has yet to find the widespread discrimination expected by several Asian-American lobby groups, there is speculation that the inquiry into discriminatory admissions practices may spread to other universities...
Nonetheless, leaders of groups that do not have an admissions staff liason said they were concerned that Asian-American applicants were not given the tips that both legacies and recruited athletes, as well as more underrepresented minority groups, receive...