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Is It Bias? Is It Legal?

Inside Higher Ed

February 3, 2012

Allegations of anti-Asian bias are likely to get renewed attention with the news that the Education Department's Office for Civil Rights is investigating a complaint by an Asian-American applicant that illegal bias resulted in his rejection by Harvard University and Princeton University. This investigation joins one that the department has been conducting for several years into Princeton University's treatment of Asian-American applicants.

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