HARVARD University is under fire for its alleged racial “balancing,” referring to

HARVARD University is under fire for its alleged racial “balancing,” referring to an admission policy causing an injustice against Asian-Americans.

The New York Post, in an editorial on Nov. 30, 2014, decried that Harvard “is intentionally discriminating on the basis of race,” which it called a violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

This view was echoed by a political theorist (Yascha Mounk) who wrote an op-ed in The New York Times, saying, “Admission numbers each racial and ethnic group have remained strikingly similar, year to year.”

The common defense of Harvard for the status quo, noted the writer who teaches at Harvard, is that Asian-American applicants do well on tests “but lack intangible qualities like originality or leadership.”

Although Asians are the fastest-growing racial group in America today, their proportion of Harvard undergraduates has been flat for two decades, according to Prof. Mounk.

Harvard has a history of academic preference.

It led Ivy League schools in adopting de facto quotas on Jews after World War I “because of concerns their rising numbers of Jewish would ‘ruin’ the school,” the Post editorial pointed out.

Now Asians are these schools’ target, more so at Harvard, lamentably.

We commend the group called Students for Fair Admission which sued Harvard for its admission policies based on race.

In pursuit of diversity, Harvard is admitting “less academically qualified students from some racial and ethnic categories at the expense of more qualified applicants from other racial and ethnic groups,” the Post rued.

To Harvard, please live up to your reputation around the world as the bastion of academic excellence and overarching fairness.

Give credit where it’s due.

Admit Asian-Americans on their merit.

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