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Harvard Loses Affirmative Action Case

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The Importance of Having a Broad Checkbox in the Admissions Process

I think if you're tying something to a past descendants of slaves, descendants of those interned internment camps, children of Iraqi and Afghan interpreters, that you can tie that beyond just skin color. And the fact that what 5% of the applicants and 30% of the admissions at Harvard are either legacies or athletes undersells how basically white students have been getting affirmative action, and they still will.

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