Some Asians' college strategy: Don't check 'Asian'
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Some Asians' college strategy: Don't check 'Asian'
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Re: Some Asians' college strategy: Don't check 'Asian'
#2I don't see why colleges should even be allowed to ask that on applications.
Re: Some Asians' college strategy: Don't check 'Asian'
#3I don't see why colleges should even be allowed to ask that on applications.
No one has to answer.
Re: Some Asians' college strategy: Don't check 'Asian'
#4I would advise an asian college applicant to an elite school to strongly consider not checking the "asian" box. It is absolutely true that they're in competition against the other asian applicants. It's also absolutely true that the asian applicants have extremely common profiles in terms of activities, test scores, grades, and points of view.
When I was an admissions office for a short time, my advice to asian applicants looking to be noticed was to go to clown school, perform as a semi-professional magician, or even excel at sports.
Violin, cello, piano, essays about translating for your immigrant parents, computers, math, science...all that stuff blends together after awhile and makes it hard for an admissions office to remember you when sitting around the table voting on applicants.
Re: Some Asians' college strategy: Don't check 'Asian'
#5Seeing that it is optional to report your ethnicity, I'm kind of surprised that anyone (other than those who get an advantage) would do so. The admissions system is already arbitrary as hell.
Re: Some Asians' college strategy: Don't check 'Asian'
#6> "Not to really generalize, but a lot of Asians, they have perfect SATs, perfect GPAs, ... so it's hard to let them all in"
Why is asking for ethnicity even legal?
Re: Some Asians' college strategy: Don't check 'Asian'
#7Seeing that it is optional to report your ethnicity, I'm kind of surprised that anyone (other than those who get an advantage) would do so. The admissions system is already arbitrary as hell.
If your last name is Asian then would omitting your ethnicity gain you anything? I would doubt it.
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#8I don't understand why they require ethnic proportions to stay close to population averages.
They don't reject high-performance black athletes for lower performing, asian athletes. I've never once heard anyone complain that their university's football team had a disproportionate number of non-asian people.
Serious double standard there.
Re: Some Asians' college strategy: Don't check 'Asian'
#9Seeing that it is optional to report your ethnicity, I'm kind of surprised that anyone (other than those who get an advantage) would do so. The admissions system is already arbitrary as hell.
If your last name is Asian then would omitting your ethnicity gain you anything? I would doubt it.
I’ll admit that I know nothing about the college admissions procedures as far as the selection process, but it seems to me that applicants should only be known by an arbitrary ID number. That is, admissions committees simply shouldn’t have access to this sort of (possibly discriminatory) information. Name, ethnicity, etc.
Why not just hide it from them? I suppose there are certain parts of an application which could give away information that’s meant to be hidden—being president of the Asian-American Student Club would pretty well give away the applicant’s ethnicity.
Re: Some Asians' college strategy: Don't check 'Asian'
#10I don't understand why they require ethnic proportions to stay close to population averages. They don't reject high-performance black athletes for lower performing, asian athletes. I've never once heard anyone complain that their university's football team had a disproportionate number of non-asian people. Serious double standard there.
So that they can tell the public, "Look! We're not racist!"
Even though they are pretty much making racist choices, the public is happy with it.
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