Who else opposes race-based affirmative action?

Lemaitre1
Sat, 15 Oct 2011 22:02:56 +0000

The Pat Buchanan article claims that conservative evangelical Christian Whites and White Catholics are under-represented at Harvard. Even if that is true it could be the result of selection bias on the part of these applicant rules rather than discrimination by Harvard. One of my best friends growing up was raised in a very devout Catholic family and was accepted at both Harvard and Notre Dame. He ended up going to Notre Dame. There are undoubably many Catholics who could get accepted at Harvard and do get accepted at Harvard but their families want them to get a “Catholic” education so they end up going to Notre Dame, Georgetown, Boston College, Holy Cross and other top Catholic colleges and universities.

The situation with conservative evangelicals is not as clear cut since schools like Liberty University, Oral Roberts University and Bob Jones University do not have academic statures that even begin to approach those of the Catholic colleges mentioned above. However, many evangelicals consider religion the central pillar of their lives and the things that are taught at Harvard are so anathema to their beliefs that would go to a low ranked bible school rather than a secular university.