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enitihas on June 6, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Humanities aren't a science and shouldn't be treat...

Isn't this the route most US universities are increasingly taking, i.e judging applications on personality traits (https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/15/us/harvard-asian-enrollme...)

Offcourse, they could grow a spine and introduce quotas to achieve the same effect, but I guess that is bad for PR.

AnHonestComment on June 6, 2020 [–]

Quotas are illegal.

The problem is that they’re using biased metrics to pretend they’re not violating civil rights laws.

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