{"id":142034,"date":"2018-06-16T12:59:59","date_gmt":"2018-06-16T12:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/harvard-university-discriminates-against-asian-americans\/"},"modified":"2018-06-16T12:59:59","modified_gmt":"2018-06-16T12:59:59","slug":"harvard-university-discriminates-against-asian-americans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/harvard-university-discriminates-against-asian-americans\/","title":{"rendered":"Harvard University &#8216;discriminates against Asian-Americans&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>                                  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Harvard graduates\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/320\/cpsprodpb\/E021\/production\/_101877375_harvard3.jpg\"\/>Image copyright                  Getty Images<figcaption>Image caption                                      Harvard is one of the world&#039;s most prestigious universities                              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"caps\">Harvard University is discriminating against Asian-American applicants, a non-profit group suing the flagship US academic institution has claimed.<\/p>\n<p>Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA) said Harvard preferred white, black and Hispanic applicants, some less qualified than Asian-American ones.<\/p>\n<p>It said Harvard consistently ranked Asian-American applicants lowest on personal traits such as likeability.<\/p>\n<p>Harvard denied this, saying admission rates for Asian-Americans had grown. <\/p>\n<p>Asian-Americans currently make up 22.2% of students admitted to Harvard, according to the university website.<\/p>\n<p>African-Americans constitute 14.6%, Hispanic or Latino 11.6%, Native American or Pacific Islander 2.5%. <\/p>\n<p>A category of all others, mainly white students, is just under 50%.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>10 things about Harvard graduates: Liberals, virgins and iPhones<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>What did the SFFA say?<\/h2>\n<p>In Friday&#039;s court motion in Boston, the group said evidence showed that Harvard &quot;engages in racial balancing, uses race as far more than a &#039;plus&#039; factor, and has no interest in exploring race-neutral alternatives&quot;.<\/p>\n<p>The &quot;plus factor&quot; refers to US court rulings regarding affirmative action to help minority applicants get into college.<\/p>\n<p> &quot;What Harvard will not admit is that race is not only an important factor, it is the dominant consideration in admitting Hispanics and African-Americans,&quot; the SFFA said. <\/p>\n<p>&quot;An Asian-American applicant with 25% chance of admission, for example, would have a 35% chance if he were white, 75% if he were Hispanic, and 95% chance if he were African-American.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>The SFFA did not provide a breakdown for female applicants.<\/p>\n<p>It also claimed that Harvard had come to the same conclusions in its own research in 2013 - but had buried the report.<\/p>\n<h2>How did Harvard respond?<\/h2>\n<p>The university denied the allegations, saying the SFFA&#039;s analysis was flawed in a number of ways and therefore misleading.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Thorough and comprehensive analysis of the data and evidence makes clear that Harvard College does not discriminate against applicants from any group, including Asian-Americans, whose rate of admission has grown 29% over the last decade,&quot; Harvard said in a statement, the New York Times reports.<\/p>\n<p>This is the latest development in an ongoing judicial battle between the SFFA and Harvard which began in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>In 2016,  the US Supreme Court rejected a challenge to affirmative action.<\/p>\n<p>The judges denied the challenge of a white woman, who believed she was rejected by the University of Texas due to her race.<\/p>\n<p>Affirmative action, or &quot;positive discrimination&quot;, can continue to be used by public universities when considering minority students, the court said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image copyright Getty ImagesImage caption Harvard is one of the world&#039;s most prestigious universities Harvard University is discriminating against Asian-American applicants, a non-profit group suing the flagship US academic institution<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":142035,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142034\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}