Some races apparently don’t qualify as victims of discrimination.

Greg Piper reports at the College Fix.

Department of Education rejects Asian-American admissions discrimination complaint against Harvard

Asian-American groups that believe Harvard University is discriminating against their students in admissions got bad news from the Department of Education.

In response to their complaint with DOE’s Office for Civil Rights that Harvard is using “balancing” tests, “subjective components” and blatant stereotypes to keep Asian-American applicants to a preset limit, the office has dismissed the complaint “citing a procedural ground,” the organizing committee of the “Asian American Coalition” said in an email blast to news outlets today:

The Department of Education has clearly let Asian-American communities down. Since 2006, three Asian-American applicants have filed individual complaints regarding Ivy League Universities’ discriminatory admissions practices against Asian American applicants. However, the Department of Education has not taken any forceful action on those complaints. Two years after the filing of his administrative complaint, Michael Wang is still waiting for OCR to launch investigations against the relevant universities. In the absence of any meaningful enforcement actions, Harvard and other Ivy League universities are still violating the civil rights of Asian-American applicants on a continuous and systematic basis.

Student Michael Wang was featured at the groups’ press conference in May, and The College Fix has described his plight as well.

The organizing committee said Tuesday it hasn’t heard “any feedback” from the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division about its complaint to that agency. Its members “formally request” that Attorney General Loretta Lynch assign a task force to investigate admissions discrimination across the country:

Asian-Americans are the ones who work hard and play by the rules. It is un-American to deny us the equal protection and due process afforded to all citizens of the United States of America. We will relentlessly pursue all available legal remedies from all venues, including expanding the scope of the Complaint against Harvard.