In hundreds of now-public court documents regarding the lawsuit against Harvard University’s alleged discrimination against Asian-American applicants, university attorneys and “a Harvard-paid expert” made some 20 redactions on information which referenced the school’s admissions process.
According to The Harvard Crimson, the censored data includes “qualifications or traits that will earn applicants high marks from the admissions committee,” like “what constitutes a ‘1’ in extracurriculars.”
Other redactions include info on how to grade applicants, as well as quotes from the “Casebook Discussion Guide and Interviewer Handbook” which serve as “training aids” for admissions officers.
In one instance, Harvard’s lawyers write that a “variety of examples from applications in the Casebook” demonstrate “the wide variety of factors Harvard considers in order to distinguish among the many academically strong candidates in its pool.”
Although the document goes on to list some of these factors, direct quotes from the Casebook are redacted.
Other redacted filings included do not seem to include sensitive material about Harvard’s admissions process but rather personal details of students whose unsuccessful applications form the basis for the lawsuit. In more than 10 places throughout the filings, names of candidates whose admissions files were specifically mentioned as part of the suit are blacked out.
Lawyers from Harvard and [Students for Fair Admissions] conferred to determine which portions of the documents to redact before submitting their filings Friday—and it is possible that Judge Allison D. Burroughs could decide to remove some of the redactions in the future.
The SFFA had said in a statement regarding Harvard’s admissions practices that “it turns out that the suspicions of Asian-American alumni, students, and applicants were right all along.”
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