During that same time, the number of Asian students who attend Caltech, which has race blind admissions, has also doubled. This is represented by the dark red line, which largely matches the dotted line.
However, there was no such increase - or even any increase at all - in the number of Asian students who attend Ivy League schools (represented by the other eight lines). None of the lines for these colleges are anything even close to matching the dotted line. This suggests that Ivy League colleges have a quota that limits the number of Asian students.
Alas as the author probably knows Harvard class of 2016 was 21% Asian-American.
http://www.admissions.college.harvard.edu/apply/statistics.html
That of course sort of undermines his case and makes him look bad for ignoring something it took me one search to find. Of course it is the type of thing I expect from the low rent outlet this is published in which why I don’t read anything from that outlet.
Black and Hispanics have a lot of ‘splainin’ to do.
In what universe would a graduate of Brown, Harvard, etc, be as valued as a graduate of CalTech anyway? America needs to face facts, the Ivys are not putting out a quality product. It makes sense that they avoid quality raw material.
What a terrible dilemma for The Times. Discrimination of an immigrant group? But is it the right immigrant group? I’ll bet they truly do not know how to respond, and will await instruction from our overlords.
This is not new news, though it maybe for the reality impaired folks at the NYT. Did they report MIT numbers?
In a related vein, back in the 80s Asian Americans were three times as likely to go into engineering and the hard sciences as Caucasian Americans and almost six times as likely as African Americans.
Whether it is traffic stops, bank loans, IQ tests, or whatever, Asians prove wreak havoc with the racist America narrative, evidently America is racist against whites Hispanics and blacks in favor of Asians in most cases, if we are to believe what liberals claim about race based statistics.
Well at least cops and banks are, but evidently bastions of liberalism are not, they have gone in the other direction.
I’ll take Caltech degree over Ivy league any day.
Pretty soon it will be, Asian, Jews and Whites need not apply as you are too smart, we have to cater to the cultures that don’t value educating their youth first......
Would not surprise me if there is another Asian Exclusion going on with liberal institutions
Note that CA, when they had their race-based Affirmative Action program for college admissions.... Asians were excluded
Black and Hispanic Ku Klux Klan type of racism-based groups are notoriously anti-Asian...as well as rank and file Blacks and Hispanics
The author has a full length treatment of this subject here, The Myth of American Meritocracy, http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/the-myth-of-american-meritocracy/.
It is actually somewhat impressive that the NYT published Ron Unz on this topic because his article in The American Conservative is devastating to much that the NYT holds dear. But the NYT version is not even half the story. The American Conservative piece is a Mac-Daddy presentation on historical trends by racial and ethnic group at the elite colleges measured against the composition of the elite applicant pool.
The author concludes that there is without question a quota to limit Asian-Americans, just as there was to limit Jewish admission in the 1920’s and 30’s, when Jews were overrepresented in the elite applicant pool, just as Asian-Americans are today. Interestingly, Jews are no longer over-reprepresented in the applicant pool, but are admitted at high rates. As a result, they are over-represented now at the elite schools, about 400% of parity at some schools. Since this is a zero sum game, and they are doing affirmative action, something has to give. Asians and non-Jewish whites get the short end of the stick, to an astonishing degree. Whites get it even worse than Asian Americans, as shown by this figure: http://www.theamericanconservative.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/eliteenrollment-large.jpg
And all in all they are anti-white (non-jewish whites), but I hardly care since those PC idiots are fouling their Ivy nests.
They have concluded that the Ivy League is not cost effective and look to places USC, California University System, Stanford and the technical institutes.
