Harvard Crimson’s implication that word limits are racist is ludicrous
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Now that the Supreme Court has banned race-based affirmative action, Harvard University’s admissions office has come up with a creative work-around: asking more questions about students’ backgrounds on their applications. NY Post's Rikki Schlott shares this story.
The school newspaper’s editorial board has suggested the new essay prompts — which are designed to diversify the student body — are racist.
A September 12 Harvard Crimson editorial board op-ed argued that imposing word limits and asking students about intellectual experiences “has a disparate impact that falls heaviest on those from marginalized backgrounds.”
And that hot take apparently “represents the majority view of The Crimson Editorial Board” and is “the product of discussions at regular Edi...