Records Show Elizabeth Warren Did not Claim Minority Status

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Friday May 11, 2012 · 11:29 AM PDT

2012/05/11 · 11:29

Elizabeth Warren did not enjoy special treatment, social-mobility or affirmative-action because of her “minority status.” She achieved recognition because of her merits, as her Harvard colleague Charles Fried attests

Records show that the leading Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in Massachusetts identified her race as "white" on an employment record at the University of Texas and declined to apply for admission to Rutgers Law School under a program for minority students.
The records on Elizabeth Warren were obtained by The Associated Press on Thursday. Warren's heritage has been under scrutiny after it surfaced that she had listed herself as having Native American heritage in law school directories.
Warren's campaign said the records reinforce her earlier statements that she never relied on a claim of minority status to get teaching jobs. She has criticized the campaign of Republican U.S. Sen. Scott Brown for suggesting that might be the case.
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Furthermore,

On the Rutgers application, Warren wrote "No" in response to the question: "Are you interested in applying for admission under the Program for Minority Group Students?"

Warren was not recruited by Harvard due to affirmative action or to bolster Harvard’s diversity.

Harvard Law School professor Charles Fried has said that any suggestion that Warren enjoyed an affirmative action advantage in her hiring as a full professor is "false" and that Warren was recruited because of her expertise in bankruptcy and commercial law.

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