Outrage about this is 100 years late. The entire college admissions process as we know it today was designed intentionally to exclude jews from Harvard.<p><a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2005/10/10/getting-in" rel="nofollow">https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2005/10/10/getting-in</a><p>Edit: 2009 HN Discussion about this article... <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=520836" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=520836</a>
Interesting trick. The two whose text messages showed that the board was aware of discrimination were two who were against it but who ultimately voted for it.<p>This means the rest of them could deny discrimination and say that only those two were involved.<p>But if you kicked them out, you’d entrench the discrimination because they were the only ones who secretly opposed. Very neat.
When prized resources are made artificially scarce, it's no wonder factional struggles result over those resources. Markets and innovation are supposed to stop this, but K-12 education in the US is captured by the teacher's unions and other special interests. The productivity revolution w/technology has transform education in other countries, however:<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrDfCy5Q9wI" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrDfCy5Q9wI</a>