Harvard’s Own Admissions Chart Comes Back to Haunt It in Trial
- ‘Difference in Test Scores for White and Asian Applicants’
- School defends system in a case likely bound for Supreme Court
The Baker Library at Harvard University
Photographer: Victor J. Blue/Bloomberg
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As claims that Harvard discriminates against Asian-Americans mounted five years ago, a fledgling researcher at the university started playing with the admissions data.
The report he created -- a raft of provocative charts now known as Exhibit P9 -- is the cornerstone of a lawsuit, being tried in federal court in Boston, that calls for the end of race as a factor in the college’s review of applications.