Can you imagine in this day and age an educational institution discriminating against racial minority?

Can you imagine what the outcry would be?

You mean you're preventing these qualified students from attending your college because of the color of their skin?

Well, you don't have to imagine it. It's happening.

And at arguably the most prestigious college in America, my alma mater, Harvard.

The ethic minority isn't blocks or Jews as it was in years past.

The target this time is Asian Americans, and it's just as wrong.

After millions of dollars in legal fees, millions of records examined and hundreds of hours of depositions and testimony,

Harvard's once purposely opaque admissions policies have been laid bare.

It's not a pretty picture. Here's what we now know.

Harvard admissions rates student applicants in three main ways.

One, academic performance. Two, extracurricular achievements.

Three, personal qualities. That's fine as far as it goes if the criteria were applied fairly, but they're not.

Asian American applicants consistently score higher in the first two criteria,

academics and extracurricular activities, which can be objectively assessed.

Then white students, Latinos, and African Americans.

So how does Harvard justify its Asian American quota?

With the help of category three, personal qualities, which include vague and largely subjective factors like

likability, maturity, integrity, and effervescence.

According to Harvard's own internal reports,

Asian American applicants are routinely and systematically marked much lower on this personality scale by

Harvard admissions officers who almost never meet or interview applicants.

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