Well, that is certainly one way to interpret this statement.

In an effort to persuade the academic community that HarvardÂ’s financial muscle should not be feared, Harvard will make the point that at best it will enroll 200 black freshmen each year. Thus, it will be argued that its new financial aid plan will have a negligible effect on enrollments of blacks at AmericaÂ’s leading state universities.

Now why should it be that Harvard will only enroll 200 black freshmen each year? What happens if more than 200 qualified black applicants apply? Will they be rejected on the theory that more than that number of blacks will unbalance the “diversity” that Harvard seeks? And why this notion that X number of black students somehow belong to public universities?

But more to the point, what is wrong with the possibility that the new Harvard financial aid plan, likely to be adopted by many other top-tier private institutions of higher learning, will siphon away many of the best and brightest students OF EVERY RACE AND ETHNICITY (but especially minority students) into these elite schools? After all, doesnÂ’t making attendance at such elite institutions more affordable go a long way to matching students with the institutions where they best fit academically?

H/T Discriminations

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