The Center for Equal Opportunity (CEO) today criticized the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit ruling upholding Harvard’s use of racial and ethnic preferences in its undergraduate admissions. CEO urges the Supreme Court to now take the case.
CEO Chairman Linda Chavez noted, “Data from Harvard’s own internal analysis of its admissions criteria suggest that low-income Asian American applicants with higher grades and test scores may have been excluded in favor of wealthier blacks and Hispanics. Though this ruling was predictable from the oral argument, we are hopeful the Supreme Court will make the right decision and strike down Harvard’s illegal discrimination against Asian Americans.”
CEO board member Roger Clegg added that, “So long as ‘diversity’ is recognized as so ‘compelling’ that it justifies racial and ethnic discrimination, our politically correct universities will continue to use these preferences. Only the Supreme Court can reverse that recognition. So on to our (new, improved) Supreme Court.”
CEO has released two major studies on discrimination against Asian applicants at Harvard University. Both studies showed the insidious effects of racial preference programs, which choose one set of Americans over another based on race, even when the disfavored groups themselves may have been past victims of discrimination as well. The studies can be viewed at www.ceousa.org.
The Center for Equal Opportunity is a nonprofit, nonpartisan research and educational organization that studies issues relating to race and ethnicity nationwide.
