Harvard Crimson’s implication that word limits are racist is ludicrous
September 26, 2023
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as posted by the channelNow that the Supreme Court has banned race-based affirmative action, Harvard University’s admissions office has come up with a creative work-around: asking more questions about students’ backgrounds on their applications. NY Post's Rikki Schlott shares this story.
The school newspaper’s editorial board has suggested the new essay prompts — which are designed to diversify the student body — are racist.
A September 12 Harvard Crimson editorial board op-ed argued that imposing word limits and asking students about intellectual experiences “has a disparate impact that falls heaviest on those from marginalized backgrounds.”
And that hot take apparently “represents the majority view of The Crimson Editorial Board” and is “the product of discussions at regular Editorial Board meetings.”
This year, Harvard changed its supplemental questions that accompany a longer 650-word Common Application essay for would-be students.
Rather than write an optional open-ended essay (typically between 500 and 700 words) along with two optional 150-word essays, applicants to Harvard are now required to respond to five prompts in a maximum of 200 words each.
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