Harvard Admission Rating System

JHS
Fri, 03 Aug 2018 01:17:57 +0000

If you are looking into the history of these issues, you will eventually come to the Bakke case, in which Justice Powerll’s decisive concurrence specifically referenced (and quoted) Harvard’s then-policy on affirmative action as a model of what was permissible. Obviously, the tectonic plates on the Supreme Court have been shifting some since then, but for decades Harvard could point to that case and say that what it was doing had been specifically blessed by the Supreme Court (and it had).