<p>This article is kind of old, but someone sent it to me, and I thought that it was really interesting:</p>
<p>Getting</a> In: The New Yorker</p>
<p>It's sort of like a history of the Harvard admissions process (but not boring), and how it has evolved from like... applications basing your admission on physical appearance to whether you seem 'manly' to other things.</p>
<p>Man, as a Jew myself, I can't but feel disgusted at Harvard when I read this. I mean, I know that it's all in the past, but still, to think that the current application process has its in roots in an attempt to block out better-qualified jews is...Oy vey.</p>
<p>Haha, yea, but I don't think you'll have any problem finding other members of the tribe when you get here!</p>
<p>I actually won't be going there, but I'll be next door this upcoming fall (MIT).</p>
<p>I am not gonna lie, over the years I've kind of accumalated some general negative perceptions about Harvard: elitism, grade inflation, and this history of anti-semistism, etc. However, this is all through the observations of others, and also people tend to attack the #1 person out of jealousy or animosity, so I am keeping my mind open. </p>
<p>I will definitely take at least one cross-registered class there, and make my own judgments =) </p>
<p>So, a message to those Harvard students: prove to me that your not elitist! Prove to me that there is no grade inflation!</p>
<p>Even though I love Harvard, at the same time that article makes me hate Harvard.</p>
<p>Lol MIT ftw. That's where i will be. I will be most likely taking Arabic classes at Harvard though.</p>
<p>Yep, sucks to be asian!</p>
<p>Ah well, my people will persevere nonetheless!</p>
<p>Asians are the new Jews.</p>
<p>sadly. who cares about merit...if ur asian..ur F'ed.</p>
<p>Yeah...asians have it pretty bad. It seems to me that when they discriminated against, people tend to not care as much as they might if the group was perhaps a different background that is a bit more vocal about discrimination.</p>
<p>wut de fudge is that suppose to mean?</p>
<p>Well, I mean take 21 for example. It seems to me that society is taking little notice that they completely gipped asian americans by replacing them with white actors/actresses. Yet, if this happenened with a movie say about, african americans, the bigotry would be far more likely to be exposed.</p>
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<p>What? Did you want all the actors and actresses to be Asian?</p>
<p>The real story and the book are very clear about the fact that every one of the students was Asian. It was a key part of their con because the Vegas casinos were accustomed enough to uber-rich Asian kids from the new generation of Hong-Kongese and Japanese that they weren't suspicious, but not familiar enough with them that they could spot a con. I think that's what Nato is referring to.</p>
<p>Ah, my bad, then.
Having not read the book, I didn't know.
Still, great movie.</p>
<p>Re: Nato</p>
<p>So what you are suggesting is to further the stereotype that all Asians are smart, nerdy, uncultured types who like to hang out with similarly smart, nerdy, uncultured Asians?</p>
<p>Not at all...wow.</p>
<p>No, I am merely saying that hollywood took a very awesome, cool and sexy roll of being smart and using your smarts and covert abilities to utilize clever methods of putting a method that turns a game designed by vegas to be against your favor into a game that is in your favor.</p>
<p>It is a very cool and hip thing. However, rather than give it to asian americans like they actually were, they signed the three main positions to white actors Jim Sturgess, Kate Bosworth and Kevin Spacey >.< (actors who I respect, but I mean, don't make sense for this movie)</p>
<p>I can kind of see that if they replaced a group of African Americans with white actors/actresses, it would be condemned and considered an outrage.</p>
<p>How do you feel about the United States of America? Its roots are even uglier than Harvard's (Harvard never had much of a hand in slavery). If you don't hate America for its ugly past, it doesn't make much sense to hate Harvard, either.</p>
<p>"Man, as a Jew myself, I can't but feel disgusted at Harvard when I read this. I mean, I know that it's all in the past, but still, to think that the current application process has its in roots in an attempt to block out better-qualified jews is...Oy vey."</p>
<p>Most colleges in the country have a history of discriminating against blacks, jews, Asians, Native American, women and so-called "undersireable immigrants" just as this country has a history of doing such things.</p>
<p>As a black American, If I were to stay angry at all of the colleges with such a history, there'd be very few colleges that I wouldn't be angry at. The college where my son goes didn't even accept black students until about 1965 when it became illegal to reject students based on race. For fun, I've taken classes at a public university that didn't even let blacks walk on the campus until about 1965.</p>