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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Clever Orwellian move. Instead of saying they aren't rich or well connected (in comparison to the students who are accepted), she says they don't have a "tag." She's essentially saying the same thing, but she makes use of the fig-leaf word "tag" to conceal her essentially mercenary outlook.
Instead of saying she's in the business of passing on hereditary privilege and instead of saying that she doesn't want a lot of Asian students around whose parents haven't already made in in a big way (or a lot of Asian students of any sort), she puts all the blame on that innocuous word "tag."
Because nothing screams "boardroom" like four years of French Horn. :)
Compare and contrast that with Mexican border areas, where people who have been living in the US for most/all of their lives (and sometimes for generations) can barely muster a single comprehensible phrase in English.
I have to be careful. I am going to knock myself out patting myself on the back but I knew the answer.
RE: Ronald Reagan said, I dont care if every seat is held by an Asian if theyve earned the right to be there.
I wonder if there are any politicians who would dare say that today...
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