<story><title>Asian-American admissions at Harvard</title><url>https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2018/06/asian-american-admissions-harvard.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>CBLT</author><text>Discussed 13 hours ago with 117 comments[0].&lt;p&gt;[0]:&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=17320360&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=17320360&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Asian-American admissions at Harvard</title><url>https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2018/06/asian-american-admissions-harvard.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>supernova87a</author><text>There was just a story today in the news about the University of Chicago completely doing away with requiring SAT&amp;#x2F;ACT for admissions.  It seems like we&amp;#x27;re bending over backwards to toss out any kind of test or criterion that could be perceived as discriminatory.  With one stated goal to make the student body mirror the general population.&lt;p&gt;But that is a flawed premise.   Is it even the role of higher education to remedy the cards that have already been dealt, and even if so what evidence is there that it actually does what people say it does?</text></comment>