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You've got a couple problems in your argument here. Your "thrown in the gutter" argument is pretty silly. People not accepted at harvard (if harvard actually were more honest about qualified admissions) would't fall down a slope into a gutter. They would find their place and ranking elsewhere. Just like you said, you aren't the smartest quickest, you work hard to attempt to make up for it. Clearly you have a place, maybe not at an elite environment where the smarter quicker will save a life or solve a critical failure or set up an infrastructure more efficently. And sure academic testing is flawed and outcomes are chaotic but a school accepting based on various rankings should do so honestly.

The next thing is this. You say, well people of other races might feel uncomfortable if it's too much asian on that campus. So the white or black will feel out of place. But you're being a sort of coddling racist with that kind of thinking. You know what will make somebody out of place in an elite school? Somebody who didn't actually measure up to the standard and got in anyway. Somebody who starts to suspect they don't really deserve to be there and realizes they don't fit and they will take a lot more personal and school resources and probably won't fit much better and so are really a drain on others rather than a contributor.

Because a person who achieves something honestly will have the confidence that they belong and even if the first few days feel weird to them, their work and intelligence will quickly bring them into the fold with their academic peers and teachers. The current biased admission methods will inevitably create tensions too and a bad long term result. If harvard is now confirming a bias, then they leave an elephant in the room. The asians at harvard will look around and notice, say on of their latino classmates is clearly not capable. And that asian will think "my cousin is WAY better than him / her" and she couldn't get in with me. Who is this clown? And so it breaks down their own belief in the school they got into and a tension with their classmates. A non-biased academic admission would mean that conflict or tension like this would be dissolved, the asian would give the latino the benefit of the doubt

It also breaks down the reputation and brand of harvard and so people of minority races with harvard might be suspected as lucking their way in due to color.