[nailer]

Third-party academic research showing that Asian-Americans have to score significantly higher on the SATs than other students to gain admission to Harvard.

The reason given was that Harvard uses uses participation in non-academic events as a mechanism to exclude Asian students.

You can read about it, and the lawsuit filed, here:

http://www.wsj.com/articles/complaint-alleging-discriminatio...

[hackuser]

Hmm ... your citation's headline is: "Harvard Asian-American Bias Complaint Dismissed". The rest is paywalled.