A coalition of Asian-American organization is filing a federal complaint against Yale, Brown, and Dartmouth, accusing the Ivy League universities of “widespread and severe discrimination” against Asian-Americans in their admissions policies.
More: Facebook Censors Conservative for Posting About Censorship
The complaint from the Asian American Coalition for Education said its decision to target the three universities was based on the facts that Yale, Brown, and Dartmouth have the lowest Asian American admission rate and that there is no ongoing lawsuit against them.
Harvard has been fighting a similar legal challenge since November 2014.
Snowflakes Gone Wild! Great Moments In Anti-Free Speech Activism
The complaint further notes that Asian-American enrollment at Yale and other Ivy League schools has declined in recent years despite an increase in the college-age population. The group blames the discrepancy on “negative stereotyping coupled with racial quotas and caps.”
Yale spokesman Tom Conroy defended the university’s “holistic” admissions practices in a statement to the Yale Daily News over the weekend, asserting that “applicants are not disadvantaged in the admissions process on the basis of race or national origin.”
Affirmative action policies at universities across the country have been the subject of a number of legal challenges in recent years. The U.S. Supreme Court is expected to rule later this year on Fisher v. University of Texas, a case involving a a white student who claims she was unlawfully discriminated against in the admissions process on the basis of race.
TAKE THE QUIZ
