Princeton's Racial Bias in Affirmative Action lawsuit

The left keeps eating itself.

The University is suing the United States Department of Education in an attempt to keep seven years of admissions records hidden from the public. The cover-up is hardly unexpected — Princeton engages in discriminatory admissions policies under the pretext of "affirmative action" despite having lost sight of the very goals that the concept was originally intended to promote.

The investigation was initiated in 2008 after two Asian-American students complained of racial discrimination after they were rejected from the Ivy League school.

Admission officers at Princeton University once noted:

1) "American-Asian applicants were difficult to differentiate because of their 'very familiar profiles' and wrote that the potential students were 'standard premeds'."

2) In relation to a native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander applicant, one officer wrote: 'Were there a touch more cultural flavor I'd be more enthusiastic.

3) Another admissions officer said of a black student's application: 'Very few African Americans with verbal scores like this.'

The comments were highlighted by federal investigators as part of a probe into allegations of racial bias within the Ivy League school's admissions system several years ago.

The Racism of Princeton's Affirmative Action Program

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There is no denying that Princeton, like many of its peers, uses race-based affirmative action in its admissions decisions, a process that has engendered an apparent quota on students of Asian descent. Ron Unz, writing in the New York Times, calls the evidence of an Asian quota in admissions “powerful.” Despite the fact that the college-aged Asian-American population doubled between 1992 and 2011, Asian enrollment at Harvard still declined during this period. (It was even lower at Princeton.) By comparison, at Caltech — which has race-blind admissions — enrollment of Asian-American students has doubled with the population.

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