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However, unjust restrictions on minority admissions do exist at Harvard and at universities nationwide. The stark difference between the 13.3 percent acceptance rate of Asian students and the 17.0 percent rate of their white peers makes this fact undeniably clear. To understand why, examine closely the factors the Admissions Office statement gave for the lower Asian-American rate: a relative absence of legacy parents and a slight deficiency in high school extracurricular activity...
Essentially, Harvard is not willing to sacrifice one cent of its gargantuan endowment, even in the short run, to give fully qualified minority students equality with their more established peers. Instead, the university prefers to "phase in" equality, waiting for its pool of Asian-American graduates to climb up the income ladder and to pay their dues for the privilege of admitting their children...
First, one may claim that universities exist to produce educated graduates. But Asian-Americans are quickly proving themselves qualified for every stage of education--just look at the booming number of Asian-American Rhodes and Marshall scholars, graduate students, and Ph.D.'s. Even the Harvard admissions statement cited disproportionate Asian-American success as validation for its practices...
...these minority students succeed as university students, why aren't they admitted to college in equal proportions to their white counterparts? Is every Asian-American rejected by Harvard as equally unqualified as every white? Surely the success of Asian-Americans at Harvard and at schools nationwide points to the ability of their rejected peers, at least as much as the success of white students reveals the competence of their applicant pool...
Academically, Asian-American success shows that even a supposed lack of nonacademic activity is irrelevent to scholastic performance, although the admissions office suggests otherwise. In other areas, one must recognize that Harvard students do not act as they did in high school. Few students performed only one activity in high school, but few are dedicated to more than one activity now. And if you take a look around, the chief activity of every undergraduate remains schoolwork...