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It’s unfortunate that Affirmative Action and its various offshoots are essentially a zero-sum game. One group or another is always under-represented, depending on the metric.

Without trying to be partisan, it reminds me of the worst effects of “no child left behind,” which in allocating resources to helping lowest-performing students, stripped many programs focused on gifted and high-performers.

Harvard’s de facto quota of Asian-American admits will eventually crumble when those Asian-American alumni start to become bigtime donors.

[qwerty49]

It’s unfortunate that Affirmative Action and its various offshoots are essentially a zero-sum game. One group or another is always under-represented, depending on the metric.

Without trying to be partisan, it reminds me of the worst effects of “no child left behind,” which in allocating resources to helping lowest-performing students, stripped many programs focused on gifted and high-performers.

Harvard’s de facto quota of Asian-American admits will eventually crumble when those Asian-American alumni start to become bigtime donors.