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Dec. 7, 2022

Legal and moral questions behind college admissions

What are the similarities and dissimilarities in the legal and moral questions raised by possible college admission discrimination against women and Asian-Americans?

William K.S. Wang

UC Hastings College of the Law

William is an emeritus Sullivan professor at the University of California Hastings College of the Law.

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Richard V. Reeves, Redshirt the Boys: Why Boys Should Start a Year Later than Girls, The Atlantic, Sept. 14, 2022, was adapted from his new book, Of Boys and Men. As the Reeves' article notes: "On almost every measure of educational success from pre-K to postgrad, boys and young men now lag well behind their female classmates."

The relative outperformance of women may have caused some elite colleges to discriminate against ...

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