Even if they hadn’t met with them. Because that’s the one subjective element with which they can tinker.
Via Daily Caller:
The plaintiff in an affirmative action lawsuit against Harvard University alleged Friday that the school regularly docked Asian American applicants for their personality.
Students for Fair Admissions made the assertion based on its inspection of over 160,000 student records, reported The New York Times.
“It turns out that the suspicions of Asian-American alumni, students and applicants were right all along,” Students for Fair Admissions said in a court document obtained by NYT. “Harvard today engages in the same kind of discrimination and stereotyping that it used to justify quotas on Jewish applicants in the 1920s and 1930s.”
Asian American applicants to Harvard consistently outranked applicants of other races when measured by grades, test scores, and extracurricular activities. But the Ivy League school gave Asian American applicants lower ratings in categories such as “positive personality,” likability, and “widely respected.”