<p>Colleges try not to make inferences from names, but it’s hard not to. That said, <a href=“Secrets of Dartmouth Admissions Office”>Secrets of Dartmouth Admissions Office; </p>
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“There was one girl who sued Princeton claiming she was discriminated against for being Asian, so you do find that some Asians can be disadvantaged in the process, and not only because admissions committees think about Asians in a specific way, but because recommenders do too. When reading recommendations you see these words—“diligent,” “hardworking”—because people tend to see East Asians in a certain way. You rarely see “creative” or “strong intellectual bent,” and they are less likely to be seen as “freethinking.” Same with issues of character.But at Dartmouth there was not much discrimination against Asian Americans, since they were considered a historical minority at the school.”</p>