That article says that Harvard tends to describe Asians as "industrious" but "indistinguishable". That's bad! But that's not the same thing as having a formal standard that Asians, as a class, are indistinguishable, which is what the Japanese medical school did with women. The rest of their admissions program just aims to optimize ethnic diversity.

Again: while I am personally fine with affirmative action and see the rationale for it, my argument doesn't demand that you be OK with it. All I'm arguing is that it isn't the same as what this Japanese school did.