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However, after an extensive investigation into Harvard's admissions practices, the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) at the Department of Education announced in October that it found no evidence of wrongdoing at the College...
...OCR finds that the reasons or goals provided by Harvard for giving preferences to children of alumni and recruited athletes are legitimate institutional goals, and not a pretext for discrimination against Asian Americans. Additionally, Harvard has asserted, and OCR accepts, that there are no alternatives to these preferences that could effectively accomplish the same legitimate goals...
...policy of the University to admit the son or daughter of an alumnus when all other factors are substantially equal. We believe that this policy has been carried out fairly and evenly over the years and that the children of alumni are not only well qualified academically, as the OCR report indicated, but also perform in outstanding ways throughout their careers here...
Also highly recruited and outstanding in national terms are our students who take part in intercollegiate athletics. Not only are they fully qualified for admissions, as the OCR report indicated, but they are a highly diverse group socioeconomically, ethnically and extracurricularly. Their scores would "place them in the top percentiles of all students..." as OCR noted and among our intercollegiate athletes are students who achieve at the very highest levels academically...
...OCR found no readers' comments which suggested that an applicant's Asian ethnicity was a significant or important factor in deciding to admit the applicant in the same way that being a legacy or a recruited athlete was instrumental in admitting numerous applicants...