Opinion: As an Asian American, I'm running the college admissions race with a handicap (via latimesopinion)
Imagine an affirmative action 200-meter dash. If you’re African American, you get a five-second head start. If you’re white, you take off when you hear the starter pistol. If you’re an Asian American high school student, as I am, you have to wait five seconds after the starter pistol before you can go.ruling handed down this week
The problem isn’t that Asian Americans aren’t well represented at elite universities. At Harvard, for example,. The problem is that the admittance rate for Asians — the rate at which they are accepted compared to the rate at which they applied — is lower than for any other race or ethnicity. According to the Harvard Crimson, about 5.6% of the Asian Americans who applied to Harvard in 2017 were admitted, compared to 7% of white applicants, 6.8% of African American applicants, and 6.1% of Latinos.
He struggled to save money for a down payment on a house, knowing he would have to rent out rooms, at least initially, to make the mortgage payments. But he was determined to achieve his piece of the American Dream.My parents encouraged me to succeed, too, never suspecting that I’d be punished in the college admissions process for meeting their expectations.
The most galling thing of all is that, even as Asian Americans are punished for their achievements, less accomplished children of wealthy alumni and big donors get favored treatment in admissions. How can this possibly be justified?
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