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Do People Really Think Harvard Admissions Discriminates Against Asians?

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I don’t want to predict what the Supreme Court will do in the case where some Asian Americans are being used to sue Harvard over discrimination in admissions.

But the latest Harvard numbers do seem to make a mockery of any such claim.

Last week, Harvard announced the racial make up of its Class of 2025, and it looks like the admissions process was more than fair to Asian Americans.

They were No. 1, at the head of the class.

A total of 1,968 applicants were admitted, with Asian Americans making up 27.2 percent of admits.

Compare that to African Americans at 18 percent; Latinx, 13.3 percent, Native American, 1.2 percent; and Native Hawaiian,  0.6 percent.

That’s makes the class of 2025, 60.3 percent BIPOC, by my math,  leaving whites a minority at less than 40 percent.

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