Harvard’s Admissions Is Challenged for Favoring Children of Alumni. After the Supreme Court banned race-conscious affirmative action, activists filed a complaint, saying legacy admissions helped students who are overwhelmingly rich and white

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/03/us/harvard-alumni-children-affirmative-action.html?campaign_id=190&emc=edit_ufn_20230703&instance_id=96645&nl=from-the-times&regi_id=98644423&segment_id=138289&te=1&user_id=8cff65b148cd498607f56d32ef5573bf

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The obvious solution to the need for minority representation at elite institutions like Harvard without explicit racial selection: Establish a cut-off of "highly qualified" and then select randomly from that group. The idea that Harvard "needs" to take the top of the top of the top... applicants is just stupid. Take highly qualified students. Might be surprised how well some of these do.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/supreme-court-strikes-affirmative-action-programs-harvard-unc-rcna66770

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Excellent news! #HarvardAdmissions University will be led by a #PersonOfColor for the first time in its nearly 400-year history. https://cnb.cx/3uV8oG8