Some Students Get Extra Time for New York’s Elite High School Entrance Exam.
“White students in New York City are 10 times as likely as Asian students to have a 504 designation that allows extra time on the specialized high school entrance exams. White students are also twice as likely as their black and Hispanic peers to have the designation. Students in poverty are much less likely to have a 504 for extra time.”
Admissions into American Universities – Not Always Based on Merit
“A 2009 Princeton study showed Asian Americans had to score 140 points higher on their SATs than whites, 270 points higher than Hispanics and 450 points higher than blacks to have the same chance of admission to leading universities. A lawsuit filed in 2014 accused Harvard of having a cap on the number of Asian students — the percentage of Asians in Harvard’s student body had remained about 16 percent to 19 percent for two decades…
Often cited examples of race blind meritocracy are New York City’s elite public schools, such as Stuyvesant High School, for which admission is based solely on a standardized test. Stuyvesant is about 74 percent Asian, 18 percent white, 3 percent Hispanic, 1 percent black, with 4 percent multiracial or other. In California, where race based affirmative action was eliminated in 1996, admission at the University of California at Berkeley is 42 percent Asian.”
A lawsuit reveals how peculiar Harvard’s definition of merit is
The Economist notes:
“Court filings also reveal how legacy preferences, which give significant advantages to the relatives of alumni, skew Harvard’s admissions system. A suppressed internal report shows that the preference is the same size as that given to black applicants. Roughly 34% of legacy applicants are admitted—more than five times the rate of non-legacy applicants. This is tantamount to affirmative action for well-off white students. According to a survey of freshmen conducted by the Harvard Crimson, the college newspaper, 88% of legacy students come from families making more than $125,000 a year. Recruited athletes, which Harvard admits in droves to fill its lacrosse teams and rowing eights, are also disproportionately white. By Mr. Arcidiacono’s reckoning, 22% of white students are legacies and 16% are recruited athletes.”
Smoking Gun on Anti-Asian Bias at Harvard?
https://www.insidehighered.com/admissions/article/2018/06/18/harvard-faces-new-scrutiny-over-how-it-evaluates-asian-american
Update:
Legacy Admissions at Elite Universities
http://public.econ.duke.edu/~psarcidi/legacyathlete.pdf
Update:
Legacy Admissions at Elite Universities
http://public.econ.duke.edu/~psarcidi/legacyathlete.pdf