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Admissions at Harvard College
October 10, 2018 | Lawrence S. Bacow

Posted on 10/10/2018 1:29:13 PM PDT by reaganaut1

Dear Alumni and Friends,

As I am sure many of you are aware, the University is being challenged in a lawsuit that alleges discrimination in Harvard College’s admissions policy. The case will go to trial next week, and I write today to share some thoughts with you.

Let me be unequivocal: The College’s admissions process does not discriminate against anybody. I am confident the evidence presented at trial will establish that fact. The Supreme Court has twice ruled on this issue and has held up our admissions process as an exemplar of how, in seeking to achieve a diverse student body, race may enter the process as one factor among many in consideration.

During the trial, the plaintiff is likely to make provocative assertions that will receive public attention and cause some to question our admissions practices. I want all of you to know that each Harvard College student is admitted affirmatively. Each student brings something special to our community and contributes to our rich learning environment in a way that is unique. Harvard would be a dull place—and not likely achieve the educational aspirations we have for our students—if we shared the same backgrounds, interests, experiences, and expectations for ourselves.

At the same time, this lawsuit has the potential to create divisions on our campus and in our broader alumni community. Reasonable people may have different views, and I respect the diversity of opinion that this case may generate. I would hope all of us recognize, however, that we are members of one community—and will continue to be so long after this trial is in the rearview mirror. What kind of community we will be, however, will be determined by how we treat each other over the next few weeks. As I said in my inaugural address, we must be quick to understand and slow to judge. I hope we will approach one another with mutual respect and consider all points of view, not just during the trial but also beyond it.

Every day on our campus provides countless opportunities to learn—both from the vast intellectual resources at our disposal and from those we encounter who make this community special. We have and will continue to embrace and celebrate diversity in every possible dimension.

All the best, Larry

P.S. For more information, please visit https://admissionscase.harvard.edu.

Lawrence S. Bacow

President

Harvard University


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Massachusetts
KEYWORDS: collegeadmissions; harvard; racialpreferences
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To: reaganaut1

Admissions discriminates. They seek a “balance.” A certain percentage of Whitebread kids, who will pay full tuition. A certain percentage of one race, a disproportionate percentage of practitioners of a certain religion.

Admissions rewards failure and victimhood, and penalizes hard work and achievement.


21 posted on 10/10/2018 2:01:42 PM PDT by I want the USA back (Cynicism is the only refuge in a world that is determined to eliminate itself.)
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To: reaganaut1
"The College’s admissions process does not discriminate against anybody. "

If they did not discriminate, they would not need an admissions department as everyone that applied would be admitted.

Everyone discriminates. Every day. About all kinds of things.

22 posted on 10/10/2018 2:02:55 PM PDT by Macoozie (Handcuffs and Orange Jumpsuits)
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To: AppyPappy

I self-identify as a Gay Black Hispanic Transgender Woman Immigrant Muslim Native American


23 posted on 10/10/2018 2:04:20 PM PDT by Joe Bfstplk (How unfortunate tarring and feathering was abandoned.)
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To: reaganaut1

Precisely


24 posted on 10/10/2018 2:07:46 PM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: reaganaut1

Let me be unequivocal: The College’s admissions process does not discriminate against anybody. I am confident the evidence presented at trial will establish that fact.
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Meaning Harvard doesn’t discriminate against anyone other than WHITE AND ASIAN APPLICANTS.


25 posted on 10/10/2018 2:08:51 PM PDT by House Atreides (BOYCOTT the NFL, its products and players 100% - PERMANENTLY)
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To: I want the USA back

“a disproportionate percentage of practitioners of a certain religion.”

What religion?

Just so you know, until very recently, Harvard had a higher standard for Jewish people, to keep us undesirables from being over-represented.

Got solidly busted for it, which is the basis of this lawsuit.


26 posted on 10/10/2018 2:09:21 PM PDT by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem)
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To: reaganaut1
"Let me be unequivocal: The College’s admissions process does not discriminate against anybody."

BS

Picking (selection) is by its nature inherently discriminatory.

Running the math could make it statistically obvious, even to the casual observer.

An intersectional analysis using, say, ten attributes would show statistically significant discrimination every day.

27 posted on 10/10/2018 2:10:27 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: cyclotic

Mrs. JF’nK is an African American.


28 posted on 10/10/2018 2:12:38 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: reaganaut1
Let me be unequivocal: The College’s admissions process does not discriminate against anybody.

They don't discriminate against anybody. They just discriminate for everyone except the Asians. In fact they probably discriminate for Southwest Asians enough to make up for the East Asians.

29 posted on 10/10/2018 2:17:10 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (Leave the job, leave the clearance. It should be the same rule for the Swamp as for everyone else.)
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To: reaganaut1

Harvard may have racial, ethnic, religious, non-religious, “gender,” what-have-you diversity, but there is very little worldview or ideological diversity.

And most of the undergrads are near-alcoholics (or more than near) (along with many of the grad students and faculty).


30 posted on 10/10/2018 2:17:58 PM PDT by sitetest (No longer mostly dead.)
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To: reaganaut1
Let me be unequivocal: The College’s admissions process does not discriminate against anybody... except white heterosexual males.

Fixed it.

31 posted on 10/10/2018 2:24:34 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Democracy dies when Democrats refuse to accept the result of a democratic election they didn't win.)
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To: reaganaut1
The Supreme Court has twice ruled on this issue and has held up our admissions process

That was when Kennedy was there to join the libs. If Harvard goes back a third time, it may be a new ball game.

32 posted on 10/10/2018 2:25:40 PM PDT by NutsOnYew
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To: AllTaxocratsTaxEverything
Affirmative action promotes the inferior, unworthy, subpar, incompetent, undeserving, inept and unqualified.

At Harvard and other highly selective schools, affirmative action also sabotages high quality minority students who are set up for failure by being mismatched in hothouse environments. The affirmative action kid at Harvard probably has a 1350-1400 SAT. He is not a dummy; he would be an excellent student at any number of very good universities, just not at an elite school where the average SAT is 100 points or more higher. But Harvard grabs him so administrators can make their numbers. Then he struggles academically, or drops out, or gravitates to the grievance studies side of the university, where he can get a dumbed down bogus degree while being indoctrinated on racial resentment.

33 posted on 10/10/2018 2:32:25 PM PDT by sphinx
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To: PGR88

Then there IS descrimination, they reverse descriminate to get a larger porportion of liberal minds they can corrupt.


34 posted on 10/10/2018 2:34:52 PM PDT by rovenstinez
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To: reaganaut1
Reasonable people may have different views, and I respect the diversity of opinion that this case may generate. I would hope all of us recognize, however, that we are members of one community—and will continue to be so long after this trial is in the rearview mirror. What kind of community we will be, however, will be determined by how we treat each other over the next few weeks. As I said in my inaugural address, we must be quick to understand and slow to judge. I hope we will approach one another with mutual respect and consider all points of view, not just during the trial but also beyond it.

Really? I hope you are enjoying the hell on earth created by the "progressive" neo-Bolshevik views fostered by your academic colleagues on your, the same hell that the rest of us have to live in.

35 posted on 10/10/2018 2:40:10 PM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: reaganaut1
Some time ago I dated a woman who was a Radcliffe College grad...Radcliffe having had a long,long affiliation with Harvard before being "absorbed" by Harvard.

She told me that a classmate of hers,who was the Assistant Director of Admissions at Harvard,told her that were it not for the school's affirmative action admissions policy the entire Freshman class would consist of Asians and Jews.

36 posted on 10/10/2018 2:45:23 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (I've Never Owned Slaves...You've Never Picked Cotton.End Of "Discussion".)
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To: bgill

A Saudi sugar daddy paid his way
Btw obama went to Punahou, an exclusive private school in Hawaii that discriminated against Asian Americans


37 posted on 10/10/2018 2:52:21 PM PDT by silverleaf (A man who kneels for the national anthem doesn't stand for much of anything)
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To: reaganaut1

This letter could make it on the plaintiff’s exhibit list.


38 posted on 10/10/2018 2:55:33 PM PDT by Ted Grant
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To: reaganaut1

I hope that Asian kid reduces that subversive sh@t hole into a Barber college.


39 posted on 10/10/2018 2:58:52 PM PDT by WKUHilltopper
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To: reaganaut1

Harvard, where 24% of the graduates did worse on the entrance exam. Never hire a Harvard grad.


40 posted on 10/10/2018 3:09:49 PM PDT by CodeToad ( Hating on Trump is hating on me and America!)
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