Bloomberg reports that the US Education Department is “probing complaints that Harvard University and Princeton University discriminate against Asian-Americans in undergraduate admissions.”
Here you go:
The new complaints, along with a case appealed last September to the U.S. Supreme Court challenging preferences for blacks and Hispanics in college admissions, may stir up the longstanding debate about whether elite universities discriminate against Asian-Americans, the nation’s fastest- growing and most affluent racial category.
Like Jews in the first half of the 20th century, who faced quotas at Harvard, Princeton, and other Ivy League schools, Asian-Americans are over-represented at top universities relative to their population, yet must meet a higher standard than other applicants based on measures such as test scores and high school grades, according to several academic studies.
Let the fun begin.
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so I guess the universities should raise the standards for Asian-Americans, otherwise there would be no places for other persons.
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The solution is obvious: Affirmative Action for whites.
That’s one option. Another is to let the top universities fill up with those desperate Asians till their reputations (in terms of leading research, originality and “we have naturally smart people here, not game riggers”) drops so low (or at least in line with the top Asian universities – SNU for example) so that the 2nd top ten university tier in the U.S. becomes the de facto best. I am sure the Ivy League university reputations and their old histories would be enough to keep these Asian Americans still grouped there.
berkeley’s asian population was successful at dismantling affirmative action when i was there. last i heard, though, harvard and princeton are private institutions. i’d venture to guess they’re free set quotas for the sake of diversity as they see fit.
Knowing the history of those universities: who cares about who is admitted to them?
Did anyone else check out the Comments Section of that Bloomberg article? Makes the comments section of this blog look like debates at the Parthenon.
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