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hiricinee t1_iu32xd5 wrote

Reply to comment by waypastyouall in [OC] Racial breakdown of students at Harvard, Yale, Princeton, MIT, Stanford compared to students scoring 1400+ on the SAT by tabthough

Harvard said in court it was because Asians did worse in the interview process. Interestingly enough, they almost categorically scored lower in "likeability"- essentially that the interviewers liked URMs better than Asian students, on average- which is literally (not figuratively) racist.

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SchoolboyBlue t1_iu3cf5t wrote

My Harvard interviewer literally asked me to draw a godamn elephant in my interview … literally ignored my entire resume (sports, leadership, work, APs) and just opted to zero in on an art class I took. I’m East Asian.

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OftenTouchesGrass t1_iu3b552 wrote

Huh? I would imagine different economic backgrounds could cause the students to have different attitudes towards education and why they want to attend the university. This could factor in.

And either way, SAT scores are already biased towards the economic background of whites, Asians, and other middle and upper class demographics.

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CannedApples13 t1_iu3assr wrote

No it‘s not.

Passing on a student because they aren’t likable doesn’t make the recruiter or the institution racist. It just means they weren’t likable. Get a personality.

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mkaszycki81 t1_iu3cubd wrote

Individuals? Sure. But if the average for a specific racial group is systemically higher, then there's clear bias.

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