[quote=Coronita][quote=scaredyclassic]I recall bias against Asian lawyers esp in the 90s.
No. 1 student in my law school class was a former computer programmer. Not all lawyers would be good coders, I expect. I wonder if I could do it.
Is there an aptitude test out there to see if I’m gifted? Maybe I missed my calling. I doubt it tho…also, I generally hate any problem regarding my computer properly operating.[/quote]
It happened a lot in investment banking and management consulting back in the 90ies because I was very familiar with the interview processes of those.
Less so if you were asian female, more so if you were asian male.
The only reason why it recently has changed a bit in banking (and just a bit) is because China has money and banks now need to kiss China’s ass in order to win business there. And so it’s great for Chinese from China, but doesn’t really change the situation for ABC’s here in the U.S.
Actually, that’s also one of the hypocrisies of college admissions. They recruit a lot of overseas asians who will pay full tuition for schools. But then use those overseas admissions to screw over asian americans because there’s over too many asians in those school, so they’ll need to cut down on the local ones that pay the reduced state resident tuition fees…[/quote]
According to a yale study, there are over 50,000 Asian American lawyers today, compared to 10,000 in 1990. Asian Americans comprise almost 5 percent of lawyers in America and roughly 7 percent of law school enrollment.Jul 18, 2017
. I do recall thinking, why so few Asians at my law school in 92.
