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The elite US university faces a legal challenge over its student selection policy but denies unfairness. 
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New revelations from a lawsuit against the university capture the difficulty of comparing thousands upon thousands of talented teenagers.
Peter Mellow's insight:
Poor old Harvard seems to be in the news a lot at the moment, for all the wrong reasons. Perhaps there are some lessons that other institutions can learn from this episode?
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Personal ratings brought down Asian-American applicants’ chances of being admitted, according to an analysis filed by a group suing the school for bias.
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A reader continues the conversation with James Fallows on the Ivy League in the age of Trump
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Drew Gilpin Faust, the president of Harvard University, talks about leading the institution through a decade of change, from the financial crisis to the Trump era. Faust discusses how communicating as a leader is different from communicating as an expert, the surprising ways her study of U.S. Civil War history prepared her for the top job, and what it’s like to be the first female president in the University’s four-century history.
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The Trump administration's legal brief comes as a lawsuit against the university is heading to trial.
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The Ivy League university’s problem in this case is that its strongest argument is also its weakest one.
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Harvard’s use of personality traits to rate applicants raises questions about how to evaluate intangible criteria. Here’s what some scholars and former admissions officers say.
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The plaintiffs are demanding that the university publicly release the documents, including admissions data on hundreds of thousands of students.
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Jorge I. Dominguez, who has been on the Harvard faculty since the 1970s, said in an email to colleagues that he would retire by the end of the semester.
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