[guymcgwire]

The very idea that anyone could understand a person's personality or character from an essay and 45 minute interview is laughable. On top of this, even trained professionals demonstrate subconscious racial biases in everyday life. This has been confirmed in several psychology studies. It's perfectly valid to question the value of a subjective personality assessment. It opens the door to stereotype-fitting and confirmation bias. I'd also challenge the admissions committee to really observe the way Asian-americans, particularly Asian-american males, are treated on campus at Harvard. It's bizarre and surprising. They're treated with the casual dismissiveness formerly reserved for 1950s housewives. I can't imagine that this attitude doesn't track all the way back through the admissions process.

[stcredzero]

> I'd also challenge the admissions committee to really observe the way Asian-americans, particularly Asian-american males, are treated on campus at Harvard. It's bizarre and surprising. They're treated with the casual dismissiveness formerly reserved for 1950s housewives.

This.

Microaggressions do exist. I think they are a part of how we naturally arrange ourselves in dominance hierarchies. They are so subtle and natural, it's insane to make such actions a crime, or to create bureaucratic enforcement against them. Those are policies of insanity. That said, I've seen a lot of racially tinged microaggressions as an Asian male.

[slowmovintarget]

I don't think this is a case of them actually judging Asian applicants as having a bad personality. There's nothing subjective actually going on here. Harvard was using the only subjective factor in the process to achieve their own goals for affirmative action. This was the only place they thought they could hide putting their finger on the scales.

They failed. Hopefully this blows up in their face as it should. The way to end racial discrimination in this country is to stop discriminating based on race.