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...besides failing at its stated goal, the quota system has one strongly negative side effect: It forces people to live in Houses, they don't want to live...
...system as it is presently constituted has one basic flaw which will keep it generating disappointed crops of students year after year. This flaw is the quota system. Under the quota system, individuals' House preferences are ignored if they don't fit into the right criteria concerning high school background, area of concentration, and rank in class...
Freshman would not build up hopes and expectations at the end of their first year, only to have these hopes shot down by a pointless quota system. And the stupid sham of House selectivity would be ended. Surely Harvard is a selective enough place already without having to make its students go through other processes of application, admission and rejection within the institution...
...those articles, and would reiterate, is that too many black students enter Harvard with academic deficiencies (perhaps 40%) and that this should be avoided by raising the median SAT verbal and math scores of black students nearer to the median for Harvard College. I also argue that a quota for blacks is defensible and the proportion of blacks in Harvard College be maintained...
Only 114 freshman women applied to Radcliffe as a first choice for housing, 40 per cent less than the 187 women that the CHUL set as its quota for the Class of '76 in the Radcliffe Houses next year...