Let’s Very Quickly Get Clear on Something

I want something to be very clear about Harvard v. SFFA.

Harvard’s claim was this:

“Asians just have terrible personalities. It’s not visible from their academics, choice of curricula, or extra-curriculars, which are great. Nor is it visible to their teachers, guidance counselors, or alumni-interviewers. The only people who can see Asian applicants’ terrible personalities are our trained admissions professionals, who are given detailed instructions on how to account for race in admissions decisions, none of which we have written down. Yes, students who have great extra-curriculars and good grades tend to have better personalities than other students. So, it’s sad that Asians, with their great grades and extracurriculars, nevertheless have terrible ones. Poor things! Also, we happened to have a fixed number of Asian students over the 15 years before the lawsuit. Then the number of Asians quickly rose after we got sued. This is a coincidence”

SFFA’s claim was that the personality ratings were inflected with racial bias.

Look at the data yourself.

(the reason that that “academic decile” doesn’t always match academic ranking is that some classes and schools are more rigorous than others; which is not identified by “academic decile” That was agreed by all parties in the case.)