The model minority is losing patience

The Economist ^ | 10/07/2015

[Kirkwood]

He should be thankful he didn’t get accepted.

[patriotspride]

problem is if Obama had a son he wouldn’t look like you.....

[freedumb2003]

>>ol. He has NO business applying to all seven Ivy League schools, and his HS guidance counselors are at fault for letting him do so, and supporting his applications.<<

What a load. Let us pretend his ISN’T a hopie-changie fool. A kid has exactly ONE allegiance: to himself. He should apply to EVERY college that he thinks he can get into and he wants to attend.

The other schools have been doing this for a long time and the admissions officers know how to weigh for the Wangs of the world.

[CondorFlight]

Compare this with a community which knocks those who study hard as “acting white”...

Which one do you think will succeed?

[miss marmelstein]

LOL!

But on the other hand, many young people would have jumped at the chance to perform for a president - not matter what party.

[miss marmelstein]

So many funny, cynical responses to this story!

[Pollster1]

Obviously, he expected to get into all of them..and he deserved to do so, on the merits.

Probably not on the expectations. He most likely applied to all of them because he knows it's a crap shoot for Asians, and he expected to be rejected at most because of their racism. I know several Asian families in which the kids did the same expecting to deal with racist decisions. I don't blame him for doing his best to win at least once in a dishonest game.

[ken5050]

And that's another problem..for the better ranked schools, the admissions office is now a profit center..I remember vividly 15 years ago..when my oldest daughter was applying..she wanted to go to Yale....so bad..she applied early decision..which showed her commitment to Yale..unlike Wang;s..who ahd none.though fully qualified in every way...academically, athletically, and her outside interests...she didn't get in..yet had her skin been a different color, and had we lived in a different zip code..they'd have chartered a plane to bring her to New Haven. The rejection letter said in part..." We received 13,500 applications for some 800 places in the freshman class. We took 450 on early decision. You have been put back into the remaining pool of applicants."

At the time, Yale's fee was $150. Do the math...

[NativeSon]

How 'affirmative action' morphed into quotas is because of one thing: metrics.

everything is reduced to a number and then limits/goals set, maybe never written down but everyone knows them.

The gub'mint, more than any other entity is metric driven NOT result driven

[LambSlave]

He has NO business applying to all seven Ivy League schools

But this one applied to all eight Ivy League schools, and was accepted by all.

Hmmm... what is different?

[theoilpainter]

It was Mr Wang’s white privilege that did him in.

[Paine in the Neck]

Take your talents to a non-Ivy and make that school better. Eventually the Ivies will be known for their 3rd rate, afirmative action products who can’t actually do anything.

[Paine in the Neck]

Oh, and stop voting ‘Rat. They’re the ones who put you in this position.

[Zathras]

You vote for Communism, you get Communism.

[Grimmy]

the idiot wanted an Obama world, now he’s dealing with the reality of a world created by the likes of Obama.

[17th Miss Regt]

Schadenfreude!