Of course this not just at Harvard nor only at colleges. This kind of crap happens all across this nation.
“Here’s another problem with race-based preferences. Studies document a disproportionately high college-dropout rate for minority students admitted with lower test scores and grades than their peers selected without preferences. How is this mismatching of value to the “beneficiary” if it leads to a higher dropout rate, with the frustrated student giving up and leaving school in debt? The student often blames his failure to succeed at this high level on unfair, if not racist, professors.”
Thomas Sowell
“Harvard “considers applicants’ race at virtually every step.”
So does UCLA. And when a UCLA professor proved that UCLA pushes minorities with illegal tactics, the professor was shunned and then his friends at Princeton gave him a job and helped him escape the jungle.
I watched a video of a black professor at Harvard explain his current research: first names. Yup. First names which is step up from basket weaving. He said that “Ashley” can be used by both high class families and low class families. Of course, he ignored middle class families like a good marxist and has a useless research project.
Harvard, Berkeley, UCLA and other have seriously damaged their brands and the alumni are not pleased.
43 Percent of White Students Harvard Admits Are Legacies, Jocks, or the Kids of Donors and Faculty
“Almost half of all blacks and Hispanics who attend Harvard were admitted because of illegal racial preferences in admissions...”
Note that this does not mean that race was not considered for the other half of blacks and Hispanics admitted. It just means that such considerations are not alleged to have been illegal.
LOL! Yeah, try booting anyone out that got in illegally. See how that works. :-(
I was on the Admissions Committee of a well-known university. Our job was to consider those applications that were “at the margin” of acceptance and decide on a case-by-case basis. The time frame was late ‘70’s and early ‘80’s. As I recall, more than half were minority students. In some cases, I argued that admitting them was little more than taking their tuition for a semester after which they would flunk out. I asked for followup statistics on the admission of such students, but was denied access to them.
My first full time teaching job was at another well-known university.Two minority students from the basketball team came into my office two weeks before the final, and asked for the exam. I reminded them that the exam was two weeks away. They said they knew that, but other profs gave them copies of the exams so they could study it before it was given. I said no. Within 60 seconds, a senior faculty member was in my office telling me I had to give them the exam. I asked why I should do that. I got the typical liberal BS about disadvantaged minorities, fairness, blah-blah-blah. I asked him how fair is it when these guys, who were not good enough to go pro, applied for a job with our degree and the employer quick discovers they know nothing. How fair is that to our graduates who earned their degree?
Crickets...
I never had another student athlete is any of my classes.