https://freebeacon.com/issues/justice-department-joins-discrimination-suit-harvard/

“The Department of Justice announced Thursday that it had filed a statement of interest in support of a group of students and parents suing Harvard University for alleged discrimination against Asian-American applicants.

The group, Students for Fair Admissions, have alleged that Harvard has consistently discriminated against Asian students, deploying tactics that many compared to efforts to exclude Jews from the Ivy League in the early 20th century.

A statistical analysis of more than 160,000 student records—filed in federal court in Boston by SFA—found that Harvard systematically ranked Asian-American applicants lower than their peers on subjective measures of quality like “positive personality,” likability, courage, kindness, and being “widely respected.”

While Asian-American students consistently outranked their non-Asian peers on measures of academic achievement, these personality assessments “dragged down their chances of being admitted,” according to the New York Times.

The DOJ, in its Thursday statement, concurred with the students that “Harvard has failed to show that it does not unlawfully discriminate against Asian Americans.” Specifically, it has failed to evidence that it is not in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which forbid discrimination on the basis of race, color, or national origin in programs that receive federal funding.

As such, the DOJ argued, the plaintiffs should be allowed to proceed to trial.“