2008 Post-application Affirmative Action Thread (Merging Various Threads)

<p>lol I have tho...like kids who say"im a minority...so that's gonna help rite?</p>

<p>I hear that, too, and it bugs me. Self-entitlement much?</p>

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<li>an Asian</li>
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<p>You cant hide your race on an application if your name is obvious (Zhang Huang, Qi Chang, Johnny Chu, Eric Tang...)! It only shows that you are insecure and trying to manipulate the game. It is only competitive for Asians if you are a generic Asian with high SAT+GPA+Piano+Math skillz+ nothing else.</p>

<p>LACs have barely any asians, and being asian would help there</p>

<p>i foudn this thread to be pretty amusing. i considered leaving ethnicity blank for colleges, (i think for one college i actually did, cant remember which) but i mean come on</p>

<p>780 SAT 1 Math
800 SAT 2 Math lvl 2
8 Years Violin, First EC on list.
last name, "Li"</p>

<p>...
yea, he's prolly french canadian.</p>

<p>lol
the asians who are prepping for SATs at young ages and are getting lots of tutoring
they're parents are insane
and they're generally...not as smart? i dunno...
it's sad, really, since they do work harder/spend more money.
i personally am against getting tutored since it's just buying ur way into colleges.
and i'm against asian parents who make their child do math problems at 5 years old and force them to play sports or music cuz they know that that's the "formula" for getting into harvard
it's sad and i hope ppl don't think that all asians are like that ;)</p>

<p>So because a child is forced to prep since an early age, they automatically become dumber? Is that what you're saying Narcissa? That's pretty illogical.</p>

<p>Asians work harder and put more emphasis on education, that's true. And it pays off. Asians dominate in every socioeconomic statistic: % having a college degree, % owning houses, average income, you name it.</p>

<p>Sports and music certainly do help getting kids into college. It's not a dumb thing to make a child do stuff like that.</p>

<p>no. the ones who go thru preparatory classes a lot but only do OK (2100s) aren't very smart tho, are they, since it's not *too *hard to get 2400's if you just self study a little. </p>

<p>but those whose parents force them to go thru years and years of prep but still don't get at least 2300s...it's not that hard to do. </p>

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Asians work harder and put more emphasis on education, that's true. And it pays off. Asians dominate in every socioeconomic statistic: % having a college degree, % owning houses, average income, you name it.

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okay since i'm asian i will say i guess working hard DOES work. but i just really really don't like asians who do nothing BUT study and do stuff just to go to college. like those kids who do nothing but stuyd all day -_- for SATs. seriously ppl who do nothing but study and NOT for stuff like USAMO, just for schools and SATs, are stupid dammit. </p>

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Sports and music certainly do help getting kids into college. It's not a dumb thing to make a child do stuff like that.

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well it is if you're forcing the kid to do music and sports just to get into college...like forcing a 2 year old to play violin so she'll get into allstate and therefore be able to put it on her college app? a LOT of conservative asian parents do that and its stupid</p>

<p>It's stupid if the child hates it, but if he likes it enough to practice hard and become really good at it, I'm going to safely say that there's no negative to that. "Just to get into college"? You act like no one should ever try to impress adcoms because it's no big deal at all which college someone ends up in. And I don't see why you dislike those kids who study all day. I'm friends with some of them and they're fun to talk to.</p>

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It's stupid if the child hates it, but if he likes it enough to practice hard and become really good at it, I'm going to safely say that there's no negative to that.

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OH definitely</p>

<p>well my experience with the asians who study all day are that they're WAY too obsessed with grades, blowing them out of proportion. maybe the ones i know are annoying but i guess i can't generalize and say they all are</p>

<p>and i know asian parents who force their child to play violin at age 2 but u can obviously tell the child doesn't like it and i feel bad</p>

<p>lol i'm asian and i grew up catching butterflies and snakes and reading lots of fiction ^__^ but i knew some family friends, when we were 4, who say stuff like "come over my house so we can compare how much of the multiplcation table our daughters knows!"</p>

<p><a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-admissions/364499-i-am-asian-i-am-advantage.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-admissions/364499-i-am-asian-i-am-advantage.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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Generally the consensus here at CC is that ALL Asians have an disadvantage on college admissions since they are overrepresented. I am here to tell you that is false. Some Asians are in fact considered URMs.</p>

<p>DISADVANTAGE:</p>

<p>Japanese
Korean
Chinese
Taiwanese
Indian</p>

<p>ADVANTAGE:</p>

<p>Vietnamese
Filipino
Hmong
Pacific Islander (Samoan)
Malaysian
Indonesian
Plus all the smaller countries</p>

<p>/end rant

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<p>This was a rant a long time ago.</p>

<p>i dont think that's really true</p>

<p>Not all Asians come from smart-people-producing 1st world countries such as China, Japan, and Korea.</p>

<p>thank you for pointing this out captain obvious</p>

<p>so it's sad that all colleges group them together. unfortunate but still true</p>

<p>oh and china's not a 1st world country yet</p>

<p>True, but it is the world's fastest growing economy and no one can argue that the average Chinese applicant is intellecutally superior.</p>

<p>hmm i'm taiwanese but i'll still take that as a compliment</p>

<p>^^^^^^^ Friedrice, that is very true.</p>

<p>lol but i've found that i've been disillusioned with the real definition of "intelligence"</p>