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<p>Yes, I understand what you’re trying to get at, but personally I just don’t see any need to to have sympathy for things like this. (by the way, my Harvard med comment was a satirical rhetorical question) If I don’t get into the schools I want to, then I’m just not a good match or I’m not competitive enough. That’s it - end of story. Race+gender don’t matter.</p>
<p>If you consider the fact that only 4% of the US is Asian and that MIT is 25+% Asian, I think schools like MIT are already doing Asians a favor by taking so many of us. </p>
<p>Basically the arguments here all turn out to be affirmative action arguments so I’m not going to repeat them because I don’t want to sound like a broken record, but even if affirmative action may be flawed, I am quite happy that the US isn’t a complete meritocracy where people get in purely as a function of their standardized test scores. I’ve been in both schooling systems, and I can honestly say that I enjoyed my classmates and peers under the American system much more, rather than the soulless test-taking machines that thrive under an exam-based system. If this means that I get “shafted” in favor of other people for the sake of diversity or whatever, then so be it. I don’t see anything wrong with that.</p>
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<p>I do not hold Taiwanese citizenship, nor have I ever held it.</p>
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<p>This is a terrible idea. One of the parts I love the most about MIT is how we are not 1600+ per class like Harvard.</p>