Accuse Harvard University Admissions of Discrimination against Asian Students

　　Chinanews.com, February 26. According to a report by the American Chinese website, on the 25th local time, the non-profit organization "Fair Admission of Students" filed a lawsuit with the U.S. Supreme Court to challenge the practice of colleges and universities in considering racial factors in admissions.

　　According to reports, the organization urged justices to hear its appeal.

Previously, he filed a lawsuit against Harvard University’s admissions policy that discriminated against Asian American students and violated the law, and lost in the lower court.

　　According to the report, once the Supreme Court agrees to take over the case, it will be possible to make a landmark judgment on whether colleges and universities can promote campus diversity by considering the ethnic composition of the student population.

Data map: May 24, 2018 local time, the graduation ceremony was held at Harvard University in Massachusetts, USA.

　　Previously, the lower federal court ruled in support of Harvard University's admissions policy.

In 2019, a federal judge in Boston issued a verdict after a three-week trial and found that Harvard University’s admissions practices did not violate the law and discriminate against Asian Americans.

　　Alison Blaus, a federal district court judge appointed by Obama, wrote in the ruling that although Harvard’s policy is “not perfect,” it has withstood the strictest constitutional review.

　　In November 2020, a panel of judges from the Federal Court of Appeals for the First Circuit supported the ruling, which prompted the plaintiff’s student organization to appeal to the Supreme Court.

　　Previously, the Trump Administration’s Department of Justice had publicly supported Asian students in this case and filed a similar lawsuit against Yale University, claiming that its admissions process discriminated against white and Asian applicants.

Like Harvard, Yale also denies that its policies are discriminatory.

The Justice Department earlier this year dropped allegations of discrimination against Asian and white students in the admissions process at Yale University.