http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/05/16/harvard-accused-bias-against-asian-americans/?intcmp=trending
and
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/05/08/ivy-league-students-say-faculty-singles-out-republicans/
I’m both Asian and a staunch conservative. I wonder how I’ll fare in college (
First it was blacks, then jews, now asians. So what else is new at the Ivy Leagues!
They also have a bias against Average-Americans.
This is not even news anymore…
I wonder how many news articles on foxnews.com every examined bigotry against Black or Latino people…
@T26E4 To be fair, the original article was put out by the Wall Street Journal…foxnews simply reported it.
Okay, let’s go the Harvard Crimson for the story.
http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2014/11/18/law-suit-admissions-alleged-discrimination/
I expect nothing to come of this.
If they’re whole argument is based on SAT/ACT scores, then it makes absolutely no sense. Yes these types of schools do reject amazing SAT’s for someone who is more interesting on their resume with a slightly above average standardized test score. Your tests don’t mean everything in life and should not mean everything in life. Plus, I don’t really see the discrimination when Asians are Over represented at Ivy League Schools
There were comments about “perceived as not creative enough”. If your ECs do not indicate creativity, and your essays don’t indicate creativity, then yeah, you’ll be perceived as not being creative enough.
There is a significant cultural effect, which is not purely ethnic or racial, where if your family values education above almost everything, versus valuing breadth of knowledge and experience, it can hurt you for schools that do holistic evaluations of applications.
I think a comparison is being passed over for a promotion. If you have ten people, and they all have the same degree, years of experience, and so on, and they are being reviewed for two managerial positions, only two can get to be managers. And if everything is equal numbers-wise, the attributes of each person will matter. And yes, even URM status can matter, even if it is being a woman in a male dominated industry.
IMHO, these are private companies, the Ivy League universities, and they have no responsibility to publicize how they select students. If one of their goals is diversity, and they state that, then that is one of their goals.
The inherent problem in this idea of discrimination because there are “too many Asians at Ivy League schools” ignores that the impression of what college is can be totally wrong, because once you get there, you get grades and then you graduate with a degree. But before you get there, they want certain kinds of students who will give them a diverse campus and prove to be not only intellectually but holistically curious.
If there could be some kind of Venn diagram showing Asian HS students vs. HS students who have a few intense ECs but not much breadth, perhaps the point would be proven.
@T26E4
Fair point.
I would like to however note that most asians are actually liberal today, ; that opposing AA doesn’t necessarily make once a conservative (I’m a an. Asian liberal who does so).
If openly supporting your party is something you are afraid of, your party probably has a lot of work to do.