Harvard said in court it was because Asians did worse in the interview process. Interestingly enough, they almost categorically scored lower in "likeability"- essentially that the interviewers liked URMs better than Asian students, on average- which is literally (not figuratively) racist.
My Harvard interviewer literally asked me to draw a godamn elephant in my interview … literally ignored my entire resume (sports, leadership, work, APs) and just opted to zero in on an art class I took. I’m East Asian.
Huh? I would imagine different economic backgrounds could cause the students to have different attitudes towards education and why they want to attend the university. This could factor in.
And either way, SAT scores are already biased towards the economic background of whites, Asians, and other middle and upper class demographics.
Passing on a student because they aren’t likable doesn’t make the recruiter or the institution racist. It just means they weren’t likable. Get a personality.
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