[reaganaut1]

To state the truly obvious, if being of a certain race helps some applicants' chances, it hurts applicants who are not of the favored races. Do they think we are idiots?

[ken in texas]

Do they think we are idiots?

Of course they do. They're at Harvard and we're not. ;-)

[Boomer]

Harvard is pro-racism. Known for a long time by some. Known by all now.

[Jewbacca]

Admissions is a zero sum game.

If you give one candidate an advantage, you harm the other candidates.

[The Public Eye]

Their living in Lake Wobegon where everyone is above average.

[sourcery]

Their claim is mathematically illiterate: In a closed competition, to help Paul necessarily robs Peter.

[Gay State Conservative]

If there are only a set number of seats then if one applicant benefits because of race then another will be harmed.

[Midwesterner53]

Harvard knows it would be heavily Asian and white without this discrimination. What they ignore is it would also be an incentive to do well in high school for students who really wanted an elite name on their college diploma.

[eyedigress]

Does this study include fake Indians?

[Haiku Guy]

Harvard: Race can only help, never harm, applicants’ chances

This is, of course, a logical impossibility.

However, it is an absolute political necessity.

So political necessity trumps logical impossibility, and the impossible is true.

[TBP]

If it helps one set of applicants, then it hurts another.