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I don't get it, aren't most colleges non-profits? Why do they seek such high tuition fees if they're not profiting? Or are they, somehow?
Not to mention Harvard has a $40 billion endowment on top of that. At the end of the day, it's a way to not pay taxes. Stakeholders are still getting paid in different ways: high salaries and job security, "administrator" jobs that shouldn't exist. In other words, it's socialism.
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As an Asian American myself, I don't understand this notion of discrimination against Asian Americans by Ivy League schools. Per Harvards Class of 2023 Admissions data [1], Asian Americans makeup 25.3% of the admitted class. They're the largest minority group admitted. [1] https://college.harvard.edu/admissions/admissions-statistics
They make up 25.3% of the admitted class but would probably make up 75-80% of the admitted class in a system truly based on merit. 4 out of 5 strong applicants are rejected simply because they're Asian American.
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Merit is not a perfectly objective concept. Someone has to come up with criteria based on whatever goals and values they think are important.
> Merit is not a perfectly objective concept Perhaps, but sure as hell is better than race to qualify a candidate.
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Merit is not a perfectly objective concept. Someone has to come up with criteria based on whatever goals and values they think are important.
> Someone has to come up with criteria based on whatever goals and values they think are important. The most obvious criteria is: most likely to graduate. Some others that aren't bad: * Highest expected value of future donations * Highest expected value of impact (publication) * Highest expected value of future salary * Highest expected value of holding public office (the weighting here might be contentious) As long…
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> You accuse my argument ala the "Satya-Sundar fallacy" as specious because I use a few cherry picked examples to demonstrate demonstrate a general fact that isn't true? Accuse is a strong word, but basically yes. Maybe it's a visceral reaction to something I have hear one too many times, that Asians don't face discrimination in tech because "Look at Satya and Sundar" (not exactly what you said). But the point is tha…
> Here, we can be shot by random guys in bars because they think we're Iranian Cherry picking a single occurrence where someone shot someone for racist reasons is not how science works plus this has nothing to do with the discussion. Microsoft, IBM, Google, Adobe, Nokia, Harman, MasterCard and PepsiCo etc all have Indian (minority) CEOs. Apple has a gay CEO. Claiming there is some bias against minorities is absurd. h…
Have a good evening, I guess :)
This recent trend of eliminating the SAT/ACT reads to me like: “Let’s eliminate these measures that allow high performing students to objectively differentiate themselves, in favor of a more opaque admissions process where we can implement discriminatory policies without scrutiny.”
>allow high performing students to objectively differentiate themselves Except the argument by people is it's NOT objective. I think the argument goes something like this: rich kid gets full time tutor privately or through school and is able to do significantly better on the SAT/ACT because they have specifically prepared for it. It doesn't mean they are smarter, or even a better student. It means they have been prep…
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>) I don't see how they can bring them back after this What difficulty is there? As they've announced it's removed due to events this year, I honestly can't guess. On B, I said it skews more towards the rich this year. Most years everyone at least has their school day. If it is not required, it just becomes extracurricular. If it's not considered it's useless.
I think it isn't really comparable to an extracurricular, especially not if similar schools continue to require it. It would basically be an extracurricular that you know everyone has but only some people are choosing to report it. That just seems like something that could subconsciously affect judgement even if admissions tries to be agnostic.
Something that is not required but still considered is beyond the curriculum, or extracurricular. Many colleges have allowed you to submit both the SAT and ACT, admissions uses all the data available and the student should present themselves as best they truthfully can.
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Who cares about those? Definitely not the new American left.
Is your claim that the "American Left" has decided to sacrifice the poor whites to help other races? If it is, it's not really an accurate claim. It's poor Asians who've taken the largest brunt of affirmative action, while Whites have remained relatively neutral in their standing.
How well "Whites" as a group are doing says nothing about "poor whites" and how they're doing. It's a fallacy of division, and anyway you shouldn't pre-judge things about people based on race... it's literally racial prejudice.
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Who cares about those? Definitely not the new American left.
The "new American left" wants universal health care, college education, housing, and a clean environment. All of those issues affect lower-income whites just as much as any other racial group.
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Sorry you encountered racism. That sucks and hope you work with better people in the future. As someone who lives in the US but was raised in Australia, I have to say that I've encountered a lot more ignorance in the US but a lot less racism. I think it's getter better but probably not quickly enough. > So why should Asians be denied the opportunity to prove that that heuristic is imperfect? HAHA only Asians and rich…
> I went to Berkeley for grad school. Now I am a CTO at a company looking at resumes. I would hire a Berkeley grad over an ivy grad ANY day because I know how competitive and difficult the STEM programs at Berkeley are. How many Berkley grads have you hired and have you tracked their actual job performance?