Today, the Supreme Court delivered its decision in Students for Fair Admissions v. President and Fellows of Harvard College. The Court held that Harvard College’s admissions system does not comply with the principles of the equal protection clause embodied in Title VI of the Civil Rights Act. The Court also ruled that colleges and universities may consider in admissions decisions “an applicant’s discussion of how race affected his or her life, be it through discrimination, inspiration, or otherwise.” We will certainly comply with the Court’s decision.

We write today to reaffirm the fundamental principle that deep and transformative teaching, learning, and research depend upon a community comprising people of many backgrounds, perspectives, and lived experiences. That principle is as true and important today as it was yesterday. So too are the abiding values that have enabled us—and every great educational institution—to pursue the high calling of educating creative thinkers and bold leaders, of deepening human knowledge, and of promoting progress, justice, and human flourishing.

We affirm that:

Because the teaching, learning, research, and creativity that bring progress and change require debate and disagreement, diversity and difference are essential to academic excellence.

To prepare leaders for a complex world, Harvard must admit and educate a student body whose members reflect, and have lived, multiple facets of human experience. No part of what makes us who we are could ever be irrelevant.

Harvard must always be a place of opportunity, a place whose doors remain open to those to whom they had long been closed, a place where many will have the chance to live dreams their parents or grandparents could not have dreamed.

For almost a decade, Harvard has vigorously defended an admissions system that, as two federal courts ruled, fully complied with longstanding precedent. In the weeks and months ahead, drawing on the talent and expertise of our Harvard community, we will determine how to preserve, consistent with the Court’s new precedent, our essential values.

The heart of our extraordinary institution is its people. Harvard will continue to be a vibrant community whose members come from all walks of life, all over the world. To our students, faculty, staff, researchers, and alumni—past, present, and future—who call Harvard your home, please know that you are, and always will be, Harvard. Your remarkable contributions to our community and the world drive Harvard’s distinction. Nothing today has changed that.

Sincerely,

Lawrence S. Bacow

President, Harvard University

Alan M. Garber

Provost, Harvard University

Meredith Weenick

Executive Vice President, Harvard University

Claudine Gay

Dean, Faculty of Arts and Sciences

President-elect, Harvard University

Tomiko Brown-Nagin

Dean, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study

Nancy Coleman

Dean, Division of Continuing Education and University Extension

George Q. Daley

Dean, Harvard Medical School

Srikant Datar

Dean, Harvard Business School

Emma Dench

Dean, Harvard Kenneth C. Griffin Graduate School of Arts and Sciences

Francis J. Doyle III

Dean, Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

Douglas Elmendorf

Dean, Harvard Kennedy School of Government

William V. Giannobile

Dean, Harvard School of Dental Medicine

David N. Hempton

Dean, Harvard Divinity School

Rakesh Khurana

Dean, Harvard College

Bridget Terry Long

Dean, Harvard Graduate School of Education

John F. Manning

Dean, Harvard Law School

Sarah M. Whiting

Dean, Graduate School of Design

Michelle A. Williams

Dean, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5365189&forum_id=2#46488418)

"hmmm yes darnell's diverse perspective really helped us bang out this term sheet"

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5365189&forum_id=2#46488853)

The Court also ruled that colleges and universities may consider in admissions decisions “an applicant’s discussion of how race affected his or her life, be it through discrimination, inspiration, or otherwise.” We will certainly comply with the Court’s decision.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5365189&forum_id=2#46488531)

libs are extremely arrogant and it's going to be lolzy when you see emails from shaniqa jackson, admissions officer come out in discovery about combing through details in admissions essays to meet their quota of dindus.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5365189&forum_id=2#46488867)

"Oh, he wrote about growing up in Central LA as a black person and how that was difficult. He specifically mentioned how Koreans at his local 'grocery store' mistreated him. So, we admitted him based on his qualifications and how his race affected his life. And yes, we liked him better than Jeong Lee."

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5365189&forum_id=2#46489901)

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lol. i bet they will.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5365189&forum_id=2#46488556)

Dear Members of the Harvard Community,

A few hours ago, the Supreme Court issued its decision in our admissions case—a decision that carries weight not only for Harvard as an institution, but for many of us as individuals. Today is a hard day, and if you are feeling the gravity of that, I want you to know you’re not alone. Please take a moment to watch my message:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AoGjh3tbPm4

Sincerely,

Claudine

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Claudine Gay

President-elect of Harvard University

Edgerley Family Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5365189&forum_id=2#46488724)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5365189&forum_id=2#46488851)

Trump should start saying "Admitted civil rihgts act violator Harvard University"

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5365189&forum_id=2#46488861)

https://twitter.com/neal_katyal/status/1674423938460561410

Nevermind that the screenshot literally says "UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA." Did he not read his own screenshot?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5365189&forum_id=2#46489855)