Do Ivy League Colleges Have an Asian-American Quota?

By Julia Lawrence. Are Ivy League universities practicing discrimination against students of Asian descent? In short, yes, says Ron Unz, himself a Harvard University graduate and the publisher of The American Conservative.
In The New York Times ‘Room for Debate’ he writes that just as university officials never admitted that at one time there was a “Jewish quota” in place, they’re engaging in a similar type of dodge now – officially denying that a rule is in place to limit the number of high-achieving Asian-Americans enrolled while ignoring the powerful statistical proof that it exists.
Universities all over the country provide racial breakdown of their students to the Center for Education Statistics, which collects it and then posts it online. Prior to 1990, Harvard University was under investigation for allegedly discriminating against applicants of Asian-American descent, yet once the investigation was concluded, the percentage of Asian-American students admitted to the school begun to decline year-to-year. Today about 16.5% of all students attending Harvard are Asian-American. In the years between 1990 and 2000, that number was closer to 20%. Read more...