Frankly, I don’t believe one word of this. The words are “not an accepted PC minority.”
Total horsesh**.
The problem is that, on average, Asian students are smarter and work harder than anyone else. That’s unfair. We need to save places for the REAL minorities—black and Hispanic. And white guys with connections.
“Asians are outperforming our rich donor’s kids and we simply can’t have that.”
“Franklin & Marshall College” is not an ivy league college of which there are 12 of them. You will get bitch slapped if you refer to a non ivy league college to a ivy leaguer. They take their distinction very seriously.
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Like for example a billionaire sponsor from an oil rich sheikdom in say, Saudi Arabia?
Actually that makes sense, because in the Ivys what they are selling is access far more than education. Which explains a lot about our world, actually.
It sounds a bit like needing a car to get a job, and a job to get a car.
racism
Oh give it up Harvard with your “tags” excuse for excluding qualified Asian students. They’re using racial profiling to screen out Asians and using a quota system to keep their numbers down. The irony of all this is astounding. Who are the real racists now?
Tags include “recruited athletes, children of alumni, children of donors or potential donors, or students who are connected to the well connected.”
The dean omitted the most important tag of all — dark skin.
B.S.
Obama went to a school (Punahou) that had an active policy of discrimination against Asians because if admissions were by academic merit they would have predominated the student body. In that environment Granny Dunham knew how to play the Kenyan race card for little screw-off Barry
The universities which want to develop an elite football program do so by hiring a proven coach and then recruiting HARD the high school players with the best prospects.
Do the same academically. Present the challenge to a genuine Nobel laureate in the hard sciences, math & engineering disciplines. Someone like Walter Lewin of MIT, or Richard Feynman.
“We want to to build the finest __________ department (fill in the blank: Math, Physics, Chemistry, Engineering) in the world. One with the reputation and track record of producing outstanding graduates. One with the reputation of having the finest teachers and mentors. You will not be here to feather your nest with research aimed at another Nobel. Your job will be to pass along your fire for knowledge and the tools to obtain it to the next generation of great men & women who will become like you.”
Then send out invitations to “outstanding students who want more than an Ivy League label. We want students who want to become the finest scientist & engineers in the world. You will be accepted or rejected because of who YOU are and your academic achievements, NOT because you are a member of a favored GROUP. If you are rejected for admission, but you feel you have the ability, discipline & drive, spend two years at another institution or the military then reapply.”
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," OR BLACK.
You know that is what colleges do. They hate it that their leftist K-12 educators and the liberal ghettos they created raise such idiots. So they put a huge thumb on the scale.
If the Ivys are selling access, you can’t really expect them to give all their spots to whoever best games K-12, because the skill set needed to do that is not the same one you need for succeeding in life.
What I wish they would do is to stop being quite so asleep at the switch because they are picking some real lulus with respect to who gets let in the club.
The tag is they cannot be molded into liberal ways.
“asian privilege” ?
The Affirmative Action tag.
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.