Princeton Reviewed Over Bias
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TRENTON, N.J. — Princeton University says it’s cooperating with a federal review looking into whether it complies with civil-rights law.
The expanded review stems from a federal civil-rights complaint filed by a Livingston man who claimed the Ivy League school discriminates against applicants of Asian descent.
A Chinese immigrant, Jian Li, said Princeton and other elite institutions rejected him, even though he had perfect SAT scores, was in the top 1% of his high school class, and had earned other honors.
Mr. Li, who enrolled at Yale but now goes to Harvard, claimed that Princeton has set a cap on how many highly qualified Asian students it admits — admitting less qualified applicants from other racial groups.
