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...Asian-American admit levels reached record highs each of the past 12 years at Harvard, but last year the University itself was asked to explain its record...
Officials also acknowledged that Asian-American students enrolled at Harvard scored on average 20 to 60 points higher than white enrollees on the College Board's 1600-point Scholastic Aptitude Test...
...history behind the investigations dates back to November, 1986 when reports in The Chronicle of Higher Education, The New York Times, The Washington Post and the weekly news magazines began reporting criticism of Harvard's and other school's admissions policies. The critiques charged that Asian-American admissions rates have lagged behind those of whites and noted Asian-American students admitted generally received higher scores on standardized tests than their white counterparts...
Harvard admissions officials acknowlodged in January, 1988 statement that Asian-American students have been admitted to the College at an average rate of 13.3 percent for the past 10 years, while the figure for white applicants has been 17 percent. However, they claimed that the lower rate stems from the fact that fewer Asian-Americans are varsity athletes or children of alumni, both of whom receive favored admissions status...
Meanwhile, at UCLA the review appears to stem partly from a drop in the undergraduate Asian-American admissions rate, which went from 82.4 percent in 1980 to 38.2 percent in 1987. UCLA officials say that Asian-American and white admissions rates remained comparable in 1983 and 1987, at about 60 percent and 40 percent respectively. The government is also investigating admissions at UCLA's graduate schools of public health, management and engineering...