<p>I've considered applying to schools that are mostly white, but now I've put those applications in limbo. Sucks for my teachers writing me recs, but whatever, I don't care.</p>
<p>Okay, back to the point, are mostly white schools discriminatory? I mean, there's a reason they are mostly white, and that's probably because they discriminate against us Asians (otherwise their % will be higher).</p>
<p>I've been hearing horror stories about white people discriminating against Asians, and for schools like University of Virginia, if guys aren't white preps or girls aren't white sluts no one wants to talk to you?</p>
<p>Think about it. Asians are in all the top classes, and look at the UCs that are about 40-50% Asian. Yet look at the stats in some of these Ivy leagues where there are barely any Asians. Are you telling me Asians aren't smart enough to get into Ivy Leagues when statistics prove that Asians are smarter? I think not. The Ivy Leagues and other schools have a long time history of discriminating against first Jews, then Blacks, and now I guess it's Asian's turn.</p>
<p>When the Ivy Leagues discriminated against black people, they didn't let them in. At all. I think Princeton admitted its first black student in the 1940s. When the Ivy Leagues discriminated against Jews they established very harsh quotas where they had an exact number of Jews they would accept and enroll each year (usually a tiny number). When Ivy Leagues are discriminating agianst Asians now, its wrong, but its hardly comparable. Asians are still > 15% of most of the Ivy League's population... and mind you Asian-Americans are only about 4-5% of the US population.</p>
<p>The reason why the UCs have a much higher percentage of Asians than the Ivy Leagues is because California itself has a much higher percentage of Asian-Americans than any other state (Hawaii not included).</p>
<p>JadeLi, you just joined today, so you missed the recent heated thread on this. Please read it before you post a thread on affirmative action. They are pointless and quickly degenerate. </p>
<p>Liberal Arts Colleges (Fall 2000)
Percentage of Af Am, Asian Am, Latino, and International</p>
<p>Code:
43.4% Occidental College
41.6% Wellesley College
39.3% Swarthmore College
36.1% Claremont McKenna College
35.5% Barnard College
34.1% Pitzer College
33.3% Mount Holyoke College
31.1% Bryn Mawr College
30.3% Amherst College
29.3% Harvey Mudd College
28.3% Williams College
27.4% Pomona College
26.9% Wesleyan University
26.2% Smith College
25.5% Scripps College
24.8% Haverford College
24.8% Macalester College
24.1% Oberlin College
23.5% Vassar College
20.4% Trinity University
20.2% Grinnell College
20.2% Middlebury College
18.9% Wabash College
17.2% Franklin and Marshall College
16.9% Sarah Lawrence College
16.8% Carleton College
16.4% Bowdoin College
16.2% Colgate University
16.2% Connecticut College
16.0% Union College (Schenectady, NY)
15.6% Colorado College
15.1% Bard College
15.0% Hamilton College
13.9% Denison University
13.8% Davidson College
13.7% Lawrence University
13.5% Reed College
13.3% University of Richmond
13.2% Whitman College
13.1% Bucknell University
12.6% Colby College
12.4% Lafayette College
12.3% Skidmore College
12.3% Bates College
11.8% College of the Holy Cross
11.3% DePauw University
11.1% Kenyon College
9.8% Rhodes College
9.8% Furman University
9.3% Washington and Lee University
7.9% University of the South
7.1% Dickinson College
6.7% Gettysburg College
6.3% Centre College
National Universities (Fall 2000)
Percentage of Af Am, Asian Am, Latino, and International</p>
<p>Code:
99.4% Howard University
55.0% Massachusetts Institute of Technology
50.9% University of Miami
50.3% University of Southern California
44.3% Stevens Institute of Technology
43.5% University of the Pacific
42.3% Stanford University
41.6% California Institute of Technology
40.7% Columbia University in the City of New York
39.1% Carnegie Mellon University
36.9% University of Pennsylvania
36.0% University of Chicago
34.7% Rice University
34.4% Cornell University, All Campuses
33.8% Yale University
33.6% Brown University
33.4% Tufts University
33.2% Harvard University
32.6% Loyola University of Chicago
32.1% Johns Hopkins University
32.1% Princeton University
32.0% New York University
31.9% Pepperdine University
30.1% Emory University
30.0% Duke University
29.8% Northwestern Univ
29.8% Drexel University
29.4% American University
29.3% Georgetown University
28.0% Boston University
27.8% Dartmouth College
27.7% George Washington University
26.2% University of San Diego
25.4% University of Rochester
25.1% Washington University
25.0% Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
24.7% Southern Methodist University
23.6% Case Western Reserve University
23.4% Fordham University
20.6% Brandeis University
20.5% Tulane University
20.5% Baylor University
19.9% Clark University
19.7% Northeastern University
19.5% Boston College
19.3% Syracuse University, Main Campus
19.2% Catholic University of America
16.9% Vanderbilt University
16.6% Texas Christian University
16.5% University of Notre Dame
16.3% Worcester Polytechnic Institute
15.3% Marquette University
15.3% Lehigh University
14.8% St Louis University, Main Campus
11.9% Wake Forest University
8.5% Brigham Young University, Main Campus
0.3% Yeshiva University</p>
<p>and Jade if you just take a look at the top universities on that list...</p>
<p>55.0% Massachusetts Institute of Technology
42.3% Stanford University
41.6% California Institute of Technology
40.7% Columbia University in the City of New York
36.9% University of Pennsylvania
34.4% Cornell University, All Campuses
33.8% Yale University
33.6% Brown University
33.2% Harvard University
32.1% Princeton University</p>
<p>This thread is ridiculous. At my school, we have a little joke that hints that only white males get put on the waitlist. If you ask me, there is unjust reverse discrimination at my school... where they bring in less qualified URMs and push the others out.</p>
<p>"I mean, there's a reason they are mostly white, and that's probably because they discriminate against us Asians"</p>
<p>...and then admit that you might not apply because of that logic. The reason that they're mostly white could just as easily be founded in widespread misunderstanding like yours and not in discrimination at all. I'm not trying to make ANY claim here as to whether university discrimination against Asians does or does not against...simply that your own prediction is totally self-defeating. Think about it.</p>
<p>Also, where have you grown up? Consider geography when you're making your choices. Schools in certain areas and with certain affiliations WILL have certain racial/ethnic/religious/what-have-you make-ups. Yeshiva University is almost all white for a fair reason. UCs have such high Asian populations for a reason. On, and on, and on. Also, consider that certain areas of the country ARE more prone to racial discrimination. This is not a good thing, but it's a much bigger picture than you're painting it to be and can't usually be pinned on one single school or another. If you think this poses a problem, then consider it and make your choice accordingly, but realize that it <em>probably</em> has to do more with geography than with any single school.</p>
<p>If you're still worried, contact admissions at various schools. Ask if they have an Asian student union, an Asian-American mentoring program, culture club, or whatever else you might be interested in. Ask to speak with a student. Your concern is perfectly valid, but there are more productive ways of going about this search than just looking at numbers and making unfounded assumptions from them.</p>
<p>Wow I havent been around but this sort of arrogance I found unbeliable</p>
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I've considered applying to schools that are mostly white, but now I've put those applications in limbo. Sucks for my teachers writing me recs, but whatever, I don't care.
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First, I hope this is simply a troll post right here. You dont care? Thats nice, considering people spent their time writing those recs for you. This already put you in a bad light from my perspective</p>
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Okay, back to the point, are mostly white schools discriminatory? I mean, there's a reason they are mostly white, and that's probably because they discriminate against us Asians (otherwise their % will be higher).
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"they discriminate against us Asians (nice language there btw) otherwise their % will be higher"
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<p>and then then these gems came along
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"....when statistics prove that Asians are smarter?"
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<p>Really? Is that encoded somewhere in your DNA?
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"if guys aren't white preps or girls aren't white sluts no one wants to talk to you?"
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Damn, Im not a prep, I know preps but I dont talk to them, guess Im not white. Oh, but I do talk to girls... guess that means their sluts.</p>
<p>You do realize you comeoff as a racist prick right?
Gotta love that double standard for racism in America.</p>
<p>"Schools are mostly white? Well that's funny, the United States is mostly white. How strange. It MUST be discrimination."</p>
<p>19382- THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!!!! I was going to say that myself, and it's so nice to see someone else say it.</p>
<p>Believe it or not, this whole affirmative action, pushing for minorities, accepting higher % of minorities...is actually discrimination against the whites. When Stanford is 41% white in a 68% white country, who is really the racial group that's facing the harder admissions standards?</p>