Harvard Hints It Will Use Personal Essays To Circumvent Court Ruling

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[MNDude]

Harvard University hinted that it will turn to application essays to preserve its system of racial preferences in admissions, after the Supreme Court struck down the school’s race-based system as unconstitutional.

While the Court rejected affirmative action, Harvard president Lawrence S. Bacow noted that it also "ruled that colleges and universities may consider in admissions decisions ‘an applicant’s discussion of how race affected his or her life, be it through discrimination, inspiration, or otherwise.’"

"We will certainly comply with the Court’s decision," Bacow and other Harvard administrators wrote in a Thursday statement.

Harvard president-elect Claudine Gay released a video statement saying that the school was still "working to understand this decision and its implications for our policies."

"While we don’t have all the answers about what’s next, we do know that we will move forward together," she said.

The essays could provide a loophole for advocates of race-based admissions, some of whom have vowed to fight the ruling. In a speech on Thursday, President Joe Biden said "we can’t let this decision be the last word" on affirmative action, and said he would direct the Department of Education to come up with alternatives to ensure racial diversity on college campuses.

But the move could also violate the Court’s ruling, which held that college admissions essays could not be used directly as a tool to continue race-based admissions.

[5th MEB]

Don’t forget to use a lot of “yoube, mebe, webe” otherwise they will know your a fake.

[5th MEB]

BUT: will a rap sheet be necessary, and I don’t mean their so called music.

[Varsity Flight]

* Admissions Application: Cover letter...

.....”and please remember to include your personal essay with your application”

Thank you admissions:

Signed: Elmer Gantry:

I’m on my way, to Cannan land...”

[buwaya]

https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/about-us/information-center/fall-enrollment-glance

[boomop1]

You learn more (important things) at the Community College.

[Reno89519]

Jacquerie, you and others use the term "Negroes", "Negroid", "Negress", etc., and objected when I called this out as racist. Rather than engage in back-and-forth here and in other threads, I wrote specifically on the topic. Please see https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4164566/posts. We can pick up that discussion there if you wish.

[JimRed]

That is a patently racist comment that has no place on FR and definitely not conservative, Republican, or American. Maybe you should go back to DU or whatever Democrat site racism is acceptable. You stain the reputation of FR with such racist names.

Wearying of negroes with chips on their shoulders doesn't sound like a particularly racist attitude.

[Labyrinthos]

“I was born a poor Black boy….”

I identify as a poor, black, lesbian girl.

[lodi90]

They’ll have a zoom video interview to verify skin melanin content of each application.