Harvard Students Want Their Data Kept Out Of Lawsuit

Harvard recently notified students who applied from 2009 to 2015 that their data would be turned over to Students for Fair Admissions, a group suing the Ivy League school for allegedly discriminatory admissions practices. The group believes Harvard has discriminated against Asian-Americans in the undergraduate admissions process. The data does not include names or social security numbers, but does include demographic information as well as test scores, high-school grade point averages, and information about high school extracurriculars. But the school “has heard from a number of applicants, students, and alumni who object to the production of information from their applications, and Harvard has suggested that those individuals contact the Court directly,” Harvard lawyer Felicia Ellsworth wrote in a letter last week to U.S. District Court Judge Allison Burroughs.