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by onetimeusename 1090 days ago
> overwhelmingly favor rich and white students.

not really. Legacy students have higher SAT scores than non-legacy. https://features.thecrimson.com/2021/freshman-survey/academi...

Whites are also the only ethnic group on Harvard's campus that are underrepresented relative to their percentage of the population. I think to argue that Harvard (I am using them as the example since they are part of the SC case and relevant here) is white supremacist is absurd. It's really quite the opposite.

In fact, I think the SFFA case will reduce the number of white students because Harvard may have been using affirmative action to help poor white students who are the least likely to take test prep[1] and likely didn't attend a high powered high school.

There is absolutely 0 appetite from Harvard to favor white people in any way.

[1]: https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2014/03/th...