“Mr. Fitzsimmons is expected to be questioned by the plaintiffs’ lawyers on Monday and Tuesday. He will likely be asked to explain why Asian-American applicants receive the highest academic and extracurricular scores among any racial group, wsj.com/articles/harva…
but the lowest ‘personal’ scores, a factor in Harvard’s admissions that assesses personality traits such as likability, courage and kindness.” This is the central vanity of Admissions Offices everywhere: that they can “know” such things as likability and kindness from paper.
This cannot end soon enough. Lottery based on pool driven by objective test scores and points for language, music, athletics would end this nonsense but leave many would-be wizards of the process unemployed.
