<p>I’d just like to add to this discussion, that the racial numbers for Harvard provided by Collegeboard do not include a “decline to state” category, and it is my understanding that there are a fair number of them admitted. I have read that those admits may automatically be assumed to be White for statistical purposes. For all we know, they could be mostly Asian. Also, the number of internationals/aliens (14%) is not accounted for by race. And we do not know the composition of the “mixed race” category (6%). </p>
<p>So theoretically, the real number of Asian students at Harvard could actually exceed 25%. Maybe someone here has the real numbers, but I doubt they are released, if Harvard even knows them.</p>