Posted on 06/10/2015 7:45:16 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Asian American students may be at a distinct disadvantage when applying to highly competitive colleges, according to Sara Harberson, a former Ivy League admissions dean.
In a recent op-ed in the Los Angeles Times, Harberson — the former associate dean of admissions at the University of Pennsylvania and the former dean of admissions and financial aid at Franklin & Marshall College — writes that there is always a reason for a college applicant's rejection. In many cases, students are denied admission because they don't have a "tag" associated with their application — what Harberson calls "the proverbial golden ticket for a student applying to an elite institution."
Students with tags may be "recruited athletes, children of alumni, children of donors or potential donors, or students who are connected to the well connected," according to the former admissions dean. However, Harberson writes, "Asian American students typically don't have these tags." As she notes:
Asian Americans are rarely children of alumni at the Ivies, for example. There aren't as many recruited athletes coming from the Asian American applicant pool. Nor are they typically earmarked as "actual" or "potential" donors. They simply don't have long-standing connections to these institutions.
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The Affirmative Action tag.
“Affirmative Action” and “Diversity” are basically ways to legally keep rejecting some of the most highly gifted and productive students: Jews in the East, Asians in the West.
In view of this why in hell do Asian parents vote Democratic?
I have no idea.
I have never been able to understand that.
They start their own little business, which becomes a big business, and then they vote for big taxes.
That does not compute.
There’s 8.
Bitch slapped by an Ivy League sissy? I think not!
BS, she is simply covering for their discrimination.
1. Some begin to learn English only after starting school, yet they speak like native American citizens after only 6 months. None in the district I taught received the "extra" years of costly, ineffectual language-learning that the illegals are getting.
2. They are the products of 2 parent families who are successful, entrepreneurial in business, and (most importantly)present in the lives of their children. The parents model the success they expect to see in these children. In fact,the entire family participates in raising them. Yes, this requires a strict, consistent approach to child-rearing, but the payoff is BIG.
3. They are taught to prioritize their lives. Work first, then play. This doesn't leave as much time for the extra curriculum activities that "tag" these students for acceptance to the Ivy Leagues. (The school's loss, in my opinion.)
4. These children are taught the importance of respect towards those in authority and a respect for their country. As a teacher, I can only recall a couple of times I was forced to make a call home where discipline was concerned.
I could go on and on. The basic idea I am attempting to convey is that excellence must be modeled and it results only when it is an expected outcome.
there are only 8.
Brown, Cornell, Columbia, Yale, Dartmouth, Penn, Princeton, and Harvard.
If they were admitted, that may result in a meritocracy, where the best and brightest were advanced in society. Can’t have that.
grades in college now are a joke. with grade inflation, there’s no such thing as a gentleman’s C anymore. pretty much everyone gets A’s and B’s. it’s a problem that some professors are finally taking seriously. that’s why GPA doesn’t matter anymore... it’s meaningless.
http://www.dailycal.org/2015/05/15/grade-deflation/
Tradition, culture, work, environment, perseverance, education and natural ability are all part and parcel to academic success, or in everyday life for that matter.
It is what it is. Disproportionately as a word is so often misused to mean something bad. It is mostly always used in connection with how "this is racism against blacks" or other groups (in the case of whites, white privilege because they did nothing to earn what they have.)
The “problem” with Asians is that they don’t fit the left’s template of a persecuted minority that can’t make it without the help of the benevolent liberals.
They put the lie to one of the left’s core beliefs that “minorities” are inherently handicapped by the majority population.
Yep. They aren’t down with the “struggle”. They don’t seem to want to use their race as a crutch, do they?
“I subscribe to the view that Ronald Reagan had when he was governor of California, when this same circumstance presented itself at the University of California, namely – quote – ‘too many Asians.’ Ronald Reagan said, ‘I don’t care if every seat is held by an Asian if they’ve earned the right to be there.’”
Asian majority a college crisis?
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2522886/posts
Jeopardy question:Ivy league has 8 nicknames- 7 are either colors or animals and 1 religion-name the religion....
Must be a lot - they are usually pretty skinny.
“Don’t talk about your family coming from Vietnam with $2 in a rickety boat and swimming away from sharks,” Asian Advantage College Consulting founder James Chen recently told The Boston Globe.
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As if the above weren’t a diverse enough experience. ( Sigh!)
The second-oldest college in the US is not an Ivy League institution--the College of William and Mary, founded in 1693. No school south of the Mason-Dixon Line is an Ivy League school.
Back in the 1980s someone published a book about "public ivies" which had education that was just as good (at least in the author's opinion) but much cheaper if you were a resident of the state where the school was located. The College of William and Mary, the University of Virginia, the various University of California campuses, and the University of Washington were among those that made the cut.
The second-oldest college in the US is not an Ivy League institution--the College of William and Mary, founded in 1693. No school south of the Mason-Dixon Line is an Ivy League school.
Back in the 1980s someone published a book about "public ivies" which had education that was just as good (at least in the author's opinion) but much cheaper if you were a resident of the state where the school was located. The College of William and Mary, the University of Virginia, the various University of California campuses, and the University of Washington were among those that made the cut.
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