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re: You be the admissions director
Posted on 9/21/14 at 3:12 pm to onmymedicalgrind
Posted on 9/21/14 at 3:12 pm to onmymedicalgrind
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Umm this isn't affirmative action. This is a new change the financial aid office at Harvard made recently.
Wow, you really are dense. The topic is DIVERSITY. Harvard has been doing diversity for 50 years.
This is NEW DIVERSITY.
Read the OP again.
You have just proved my point. Harvard is doing NEW DIVERSITY. Poor people that goes beyond merit, beyond race, beyond gender, etc.
Of course the real reason for the NYT crusade is to get STRIVING back into a circumvention of racial quotas. Race based admissions have had some problems with the courts.
STRIVING is very OLD. Did you know that? It was a circumvention started in the 90s. IE, 'We are not letting Leeroy into Harvard because he's black. That's against the law. We're letting him in because he's had a tough life. Why? Because he's black."
This is really old case law. I'm shocked that you are so far behind the curve. Well, not really shocked. But have a nice day and try to keep up.
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Posted on 9/21/14 at 3:29 pm to Zach
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This is NEW DIVERSITY.
Read the OP again.
Unfortunately I read it too many times hoping I would eventually uncover something substantive, but nope. Just a faulty premise and erroneous assumptions.
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You have just proved my point. Harvard is doing NEW DIVERSITY. Poor people that goes beyond merit, beyond race, beyond gender, etc.
No, they aren't, this is the faulty premise I was referring to. Link to back up these claims?
Of course this isn't surprising since you weren't even aware of Harvard's recent, and unique, changes to their financial aid practices. Thats very important context here that you are lacking, Zach.
You are arguing that Harvard, when deciding between two applicants, will choose the less-accomplished one if that individual is poor to add "diversity." Where are you getting this from, since you have yet to provide a single link in this thread?
The truth is, they choose the better candidate, and if that person cannot afford Harvard, they give them generous need-based aid. There is absolutely nothing wrong or discriminatory about that policy.
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