Asian students filed a lawsuit in the U.S. federal district court in Massachusetts in 2014, against Harvard University, claiming that Harvard discriminates against Asian applicants in its undergraduate admissions process.
During the trial, the plaintiffs proved that Harvard consistently required Asians to score higher than applicants of any other racial or ethnic group on other admissions measures like test scores, and grades.
Harvard University officials did concede that in a 2013 internal review found that if Harvard considered only academic scores, and grades the Asian share of the class would rise to 43 percent from the actual 19 percent.
