The Education Department's Office of Civil Rights has issued its final decision in an investigation that has been going on since 2006: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2015/09/24/ocr-clears-princeton-anti-asian-discrimination-admissions
CC members with long memories will recall that this case started with a student who was accepted by Yale, but rejected by Princeton and Harvard, who brought this proceeding alleging that Princeton discriminated against him because he was Asian. OCR has now (nine years later) rejected that claim. The article has a lot of details--it appears that OCR delved deeply into the actual admissions files for many students, and just didn't find anything much.
Will this end the controversy? Probably not. But it demonstrates what I've always thought about this, that it will extremely difficult for anybody to prove that this kind of discrimination is going on, even if it really is happening.
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