In this piece, Kenny Xu examines Harvard’s discriminatory admissions policy.

He compares the way Harvard used to use “personality” scores to keep out Jewish applicants to the way it now does the same thing for Asians.

Writes Xu, “The primary consequence of Harvard’s discrimination won’t just be Asian American deprivation. It will be the penalization of hard work felt by America’s high-achieving students. Asian American success in education is no secret: They study twice as many hours as the average American and take more challenging courses than other racial groups.”

He’s right that racial preferences penalize students who have worked extremely hard, but it also has the opposite effect on the supposed beneficiaries. When students in “underrepresented” groups know that they have the advantage of preferences in their favor, they don’t work as hard as otherwise, as Professor John Obgu concluded.