“[Harvard] uses a ‘personality rating’ for each applicant that measures things such as ‘likability,’ ‘courage,’ and ‘kindness.’ But a statistical analysis of these personality ratings found that Harvard consistently gives low scores on these qualities to Asian American applicants and gives high scores to black applicants. The differences in these scores were so great that an Asian American in the top 10% academically has only a 13% chance of being admitted to Harvard, whereas a black applicant with the same academic record has a 56% chance of getting in…

“Harvard may claim that its admissions process is not racially discriminatory. But at the very same time as it claims race is not a ‘determinative’ factor in its admission process, the school also says that if it were barred from using race as a factor, the share of black students at the school would fall from the current 14% to 6%. So which is it? Is race ‘determinative’ or not? Harvard cannot even get its story straight.”

‍Editorial Board, Washington Examiner

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‍“Centuries of racial discrimination have left black Americans and other historically-marginalized groups with disproportionate economic and educational disadvantages, but not with exclusive economic and educational disadvantages. There are poor and disadvantaged Americans of all races, and systems that privilege, say, a wealthy black or Hispanic student over a poor white student both fail to recognize the real adversity faced by poor students of any race and diminish the true diversity of the incoming class…

“If schools truly want to prioritize diversity, they should focus on class. ​​Fostering greater class-based diversity can help achieve greater diversity across the board: More racial diversity, more economic diversity, more ideological diversity, and more diversity on the basis of religion. Emphasizing diversity of class doesn’t just create a student body that looks like America. It creates a student body that is like America.”

‍David French, The Dispatch

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‍“Racial representation’s ultimate sin is that it dehumanizes. When Harvard rejects some Asians because they are already ‘represented’ by other Asians, in order to admit some blacks to ‘represent’ other blacks, it collapses these students to their skin colors…

“The phrase ‘people who look like me’—which one hears so often these days—is profoundly reductionist, implying that all blacks look alike, that all Asians look alike, and more essentially, that they are alike. This is racism. It obliterates each student’s full humanity… “When Harvard pontificates that the institution must look more like America, just which one of us Americans does Harvard think doesn’t look like America and doesn’t belong here?… This is not the America we strive for. We can do much better.”

‍Wai Wah Chin, City Journal