Chinese student files suit against Princeton for racial bias

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<p><a href="http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/archives/2006/11/13/news/16544.shtml%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/archives/2006/11/13/news/16544.shtml&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>To sum it up, some Chinese guy named Jian Li who had a 2400 and near-perfect SAT II's was rejected from Princeton, Harvard, Stanford, MIT and UPenn. Normally, I don't give too much credit to Asians who claim that the greatest injustice has been inflicted upon them because they have to go to Dartmouth instead of Harvard, but perfect scores across the board and rejections from all those schools? Unless this guy wrote the worst essay in the world or was president of the Hatemongerers Club in high school, his series of rejections seems abnormal. On a personal note, a Chinese guy in my high school got into those schools with a perfect SAT and presumably impeccable SATs. </p>

<p>BTW, the guy in the article got into Yale, and if I were him, I'd just accept all the rejections and rejoice the fact that I got into Yale, though lament that I did not even apply to Brown =). C'mon, Yale! Only 9% of the country gets to go to that school.</p>

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<p>"Only 9% of the country gets to go to that school." Wow... Yale must be really big...</p>

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<p>He probably just wants $$$ for his expensive Yale tuition.</p>

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<p><em>He probably just wants $$$ for his expensive Yale tuition.</em></p>

<p>Hey, that's brilliant! No wonder he got a 2400 on his SATs! </p>

<p>Step 1: Apply to a bunch of Ivy League Schools.
Step 2: Get into one of them, get rejected by others.
Step 3: Sue one of the others for money to pay for the one you got in.
Step 4: Free IVY LEAGUE EDUCATION!</p>

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<p>Haha, my mistake. I meant 9% of applicants.</p>

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<p>I may not like people suing over every little injustice, but COME ON! Perfect scores, and no other ivy league acceptances? :eek:</p>

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<p>I don't think you can "sue" for a subjective opinion. Otherwise, all English teachers would be bankrupt. :D</p>

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<p>I hope the kid loses for being so pretentious. I hope he becomes the laughing stock of his school.</p>

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<p>OMG, PRIVATE INSTITUTIONS MAKING THEIR OWN DECISIONS WITH REGARDS TO WHO THEY ADMIT AND WHO THEY CHOOSE NOT TO! LETS SUE THEM FOR NOT ADMITTING US, BECAUSE EVERYONE KNOWS PERFECT SCORES AUTOMATICALLY MEAN YOU'RE GOING TO GET IT! </p>

<p>It's not like anyone else who applied had competitive applications, or that ivy league admissions processes sometimes seem like they hire the drunk homeless guys to aid in the selection process.</p>

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<p>Maybe they already accepted too many Chinese kids; they needed some extra room to fill their quota of black kids, hispanic kids, and Arab kids.</p>

<p>Affirmative action's dark side.</p>

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OMG, PRIVATE INSTITUTIONS MAKING THEIR OWN DECISIONS WITH REGARDS TO WHO THEY ADMIT AND WHO THEY CHOOSE NOT TO!

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<p>although the schools are private, they are not completely free. they can't use quotas for affirmative action, for instance. Bakke (from UC v. Bakke) sued for slightly different reasons but similar, and he won and was admitted. That Bakke won shouldn't be used as justification that the Yale freshmen is acting properly, but it is still little more complex than private institutions doing whatever they want. They do not have complete autonomy.</p>