Ivy league schools accused of discriminating against Asian-American applicants
- 8 years ago
A coalition of 132 Asian-American organizations is expected to file a complaint with the federal departments of Education and Justice Monday, alleging that Yale University, Dartmouth College and Brown University discriminate against Asian Americans in their admission processes.
The complaint, from the Asian American Coalition for Education, accuses the three Ivy League schools of rejecting Asian-American students with near-perfect SAT scores and GPAs in the top one percent while accepting applicants of other races with similar honors.
The groups also allege racial quotas and caps are used to maintain “ideal racial balances” that have kept the percentage of Asian-American students at these schools the same for the last two decades.
The coalition is asking that these schools be barred or limited from supposedly using race in admissions decisions, curb what it calls subjective components in evaluating applications, and reveal qualifications of their applicant pools.
The complaint, from the Asian American Coalition for Education, accuses the three Ivy League schools of rejecting Asian-American students with near-perfect SAT scores and GPAs in the top one percent while accepting applicants of other races with similar honors.
The groups also allege racial quotas and caps are used to maintain “ideal racial balances” that have kept the percentage of Asian-American students at these schools the same for the last two decades.
The coalition is asking that these schools be barred or limited from supposedly using race in admissions decisions, curb what it calls subjective components in evaluating applications, and reveal qualifications of their applicant pools.