Word: blind
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Fitzsimmons admits that Harvard has become one of several elite universities to consider adopting a race-blind admissions procedure, something unthinkable just 10 years...
...Fitzsimmons says the adoption of a race-blind admissions procedure is unlikely...
...However, if Harvard ever does decide to change how it admits its classes, it faces a problem. Where merit can be measured relatively objectively--such as by the quality of a musical performance--race-blind admissions can be a useful tool to remedy implicit prejudice. But where overall merit depends on a confluence of individual factors, deleting the consideration of race may detract from the big picture...
...Orchestral ensembles that were once predominantly male, for example, have achieved a more equal gender balance in recent years, but without affirmative action. Instead, they've used blind auditions since at least the 1970s, during which judges literally cannot see the person who is performing blind auditions...
...Blind auditions] are designed to try to wipe out all other factors than just sound," she says...