More than 60 Asian-American groups have accused Harvard University of discriminating against applicants for their ethnic backgrounds in complaints filed with the Justice Department and the Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights.
The federal complaints, the latest in a long line of legal attacks against Harvard for alleged anti-Asian bias, accuse the university of violating federal civil-rights laws by systematically discriminating against Asian-American applicants. The complaints allege that Harvard’s admissions process gives excessive consideration to applicants’ race, uses racial stereotypes and double standards, and seeks to racially balance enrollments to the point of maintaining de facto quotas.
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