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In 2013, Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA) filed suit against Harvard University in U.S. District Court in Boston, alleging that the university's undergraduate admission practices violated Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 by discriminating against Asian Americans. In 2019 a district court judge upheld Harvard's limited use of race as ...
Harvard and the University of North Carolina (UNC) moved this week to delay lawsuits by a conservative group alleging that the schools unfairly limit the number of Asian-American students admitted.
A Boston federal appeals court ruled Thursday that Harvard University's admissions process does not intentionally discriminate against prospective Asian American students.
Harvard University discriminates against Asian-American applicants in order to limit how many it admits, a lawyer for a group suing the school said on Monday at the start of a trial that could ...
The lawsuit against UNC-Chapel Hill alleged discrimination against Asian American and white applicants. The Harvard case revealed that Harvard gave a “personal” rating to its applicants, and that Asian American applicants had higher academic scores than other applicants but a lower “personal” rating than other applicants. [ 16 ]
Some historians [9] and former admissions officers [10] likewise deny that there is an Asian quota or a bias against Asian applicants, or conclude as much. More generally, the bias in test scores (the fact that successful Asian applicants have higher test scores than successful applicants overall) is ascribed to applicants being judged on more ...
A federal court has upheld a ruling that clears Harvard of discrimination against Asian Americans. Two judges rejected an anti-affirmative action group's claims the Ivy League university penalizes ...
Students for Fair Admissions v. President and Fellows of Harvard College [8] was dismissed in October 2019, [9] and that ruling was subsequently upheld on appeal. [10] In February 2021, however, SFFA petitioned the Supreme Court of the United States to review the case. [11]