Ivy League Rallies Behind Harvard to Fight Admissions Suit

Complaint claims Harvard unfair to Asian American applicants
Alumni, organizations back Ivy League’s admissions processes

Harvard banners hang outside Memorial Church on the Harvard University campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts.Photographer: Michael Fein/Bloomberg

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By Sydney Maki and Janelle Lawrence

July 30, 2018 at 4:55 PM UTC

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July 30, 2018 at 8:46 PM UTC

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Yale, Brown and Princeton universities were among more than a dozen elite schools that endorsed Harvard University’s practice of considering race as a piece of its admissions processes.

The schools said in a court filing Monday that it’s essential to consider race in the admissions process to attain “diverse student bodies.” They urged the judge to uphold an approach that includes a student’s socioeconomic background, academic merit, parental education level and leadership skills, along with ethnicity and race.