Minorities Are Now the Majority In Harvard's Freshman Class

ashley.rae | August 3, 2017
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A majority of Harvard University’s incoming class will be non-white, in a feat being applauded as “amazing.”

The Boston Globe reports that for the first time in the school’s history, a majority of the freshman class admitted to Harvard is non-white, claiming 50.8 percent of the freshmen will be from minority groups including African-Americans, Hispanics, Native-Americans, native Hawaiians, and Asians.

The previous year, the Boston Globe reports minorities comprised 47.3 percent of Harvard’s freshman class.

The Boston Globe notes the school admitted 22.2 percent of Asians who applied to the school, which is the same figure as the previous year.

It appears Harvard has been preparing for its non-white incoming class. In June, the school rescinded the acceptances of students for the Class of 2021 who shared offensive memes in private Facebook groups, including memes about race. In April, the school removed the line referencing “Puritans” from its alma mater, which had been sung at the school's commencement ceremony since 1838, in order to create a more “inclusive environment.”

The demographic change at Harvard has been praised by Tracy Jan, a Washington Post writer on “race and the economy" who called the move “amazing”:

Jessie Daniels, a professor of sociology at Hunter College, pointed out that Hunter College has been “doing this” “for a while now”:

Harvard’s new demographic numbers come out as the New York Times claims President Trump’s U.S. Department of Justice is seeking resources to combat race-based admission standards at universities across the country. Harvard itself has been at the center of a lawsuit by those who claim the school discriminates against Asians in its admission standards.

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