The famous Harvard University is facing charges that it discriminates against Asian-American students by rating them lower than the?other applicants on traits like ¡°positive personality¡± according to a lawsuit against one of the Ivy League schools. The 388-year-old institute famous across the world has been sued by Students for Fair Admissions, an action group for discriminating against Asian applicants, the New York Times reported.
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The group has put an analysis as a study where the admission data of more than 160,000 applications who applied for admissions from 2000 to 2015. It showed that Asians were given lower scores on ¡°personality¡±? traits-likability, courage, kindness and being ¡°widely respected¡±.
Asian-Americans scored higher than applicants of any other racial or ethnic group on admissions measures like test scores, grades and extracurricular activities, according to the analysis commissioned by a group that opposes all race-based admissions criteria.
But the students¡¯ personal ratings significantly dragged down their chances of being admitted, the analysis found.?
The court documents filed in federal court in Boston also showed that Harvard conducted an internal investigation into its admissions policies in 2013 and found a bias against Asian-American applicants. But Harvard never made a findings public or acted on them, the report said.?
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In response to the allegations,? Harvard commissioned its own study which called the report ¡°incomplete and misleading¡±.
"Thorough and comprehensive analysis of the data and evidence makes clear that Harvard College does not discriminate against applicants from any group, including Asian-Americans, whose rate of admission has grown 29 per cent over the last decade, Harvard said in a statement.