The Department of Justice is currently investigating admissions policies at Harvard to see whether they discriminate against Asian-Americans.

The Asian-American Coalition for Education is arguing that affirmative action hurts Asian students' chance at getting into Ivy League schools.

A 2009 Princeton study found that in order to get into America's top universities, Asian-American students' SAT scores have to be 140 points higher than white students, 270 points higher than Hispanic students, and 450 points higher than black students.

Since the 90s, the population of Asian-Americans in the US has more than doubled, but their representation in top universities has remained about the same.

According to a survey by the Harvard Crimson, Asian-Americans make up 23.5% of Harvard's freshman class. Black students only make up 11.2%. White students? A whopping 58.2%.

Compare that to the percentage of college-age Americans of each race ... Asians and whites are overrepresented, but black students are underrepresented.

Despite the recent lawsuits, 67% of Asian-Americans feel that affirmative action policies are needed.

Read the full article on affirmative action at Business Insider