[quote=FlyerInHi]flu, did you read the article about Harvard being unfair to Asian-Americans. There’s a lot similar to the past treatment of Jews.
Maybe you should concentrate your efforts on helping Asian-Americans student bring suit against private universities.[/quote]
Well, it’s really no secret…I’m well aware of this, because it happens not just at Harvard but just about at every other Ivy League school… Even back when I attended my school years back….I was fortunate (unfortunate) enough to be a liason with admissions and incoming student body….Asians, typically had 150 points higher on their SATs, near 800’s on their achievement tests, and most had to have Calculus AP already completed and completed well, all else extracurricular stuff being equal…
I think what you do have though is, is previously asians never complained about it. I certainly didn’t realize there was a race-based double standard until I was in college or started fighting for an internship while in college during a time when the economy was still bad. And at my internship, it was clear there was group A kids that knew what they were doing and group B kids that clearly did not. That company, eventually went under BTW (sold to a Chinese firm recently..ironic)
Now, that is not to say I’m against need-based admissions in general. I’m against race-based admissions practices and the associated zero-sum game wrto specifically other races that often get implemented to achieve race quotas.
If people really want to fix this social/economic issue, they should spend a heck of a lot more time fixing it at lower education levels (jr high/high school level) and address that problem first there by getting more of (insert your favorite underrepresented minority) interested in those areas and help them so they work hard to get there by their own abilities. If the government needs to spend more money at economically disadvantaged public schools in certain areas..fine so be it…And i specifically said economically disadvantaged, because that could easily imply some rust-belt rural hick-town in which no kids have ever gone to college..
BTW: if you’re referring to the lawsuit against Harvard, the lawsuit is funded by Edward Blum.. He’s much less interested in really “helping” address the inequality specifically against asian americans as he is interested in completely tearing down affirmative action.
