Posted on 06/09/2023 6:58:38 PM PDT by Jess Kitting
Jon Wang, an Asian-American, achieved a nearly perfect sore of 1590 out of 1600 on the Scholastic Aptitude Test and attained 4.65 grade-point average in high school — well beyond perfect.
Most folks likely would assume that waves of red carpets would come rolling in from elite colleges that would love nothing more than to scoop up a student boasting such numbers.
Indeed, Wang told Fox Nation he applied to six "top-tier" institutions of higher learning — Harvard, Princeton, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the California Institute of Technology, Carnegie-Mellon, and the University of California, Berkeley.
But the verdict — despite Wang's performance, which included a perfect 800 on the math portion of the SAT — was a resounding no from all six schools, the cable network program said.… [they] told me I had a 20% chance of getting accepted to Harvard as an Asian-American and a 95% chance as an African-American," Wang told Fox Nation.
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The Left has always had a pecking order. Currently it has the alphabet people on top with blacks below them. The rest of the order is debatable.
Date: June 28, 1978
Location: California Davis United States
Key People: Harry A. Blackmun Lewis F. Powell, Jr.
Bakke decision, formally Regents of the University of California v. Bakke, ruling in which, on June 28, 1978, the U.S. Supreme Court declared affirmative action constitutional but invalidated the use of racial quotas. The medical school at the University of California, Davis, as part of the university’s affirmative action program, had reserved 16 percent of its admission places for minority applicants. Allan Bakke, a white California man who had twice unsuccessfully applied for admission to the medical school, filed suit against the university. Citing evidence that his grades and test scores surpassed those of many minority students who had been accepted for admission, Bakke charged that he had suffered unfair “reverse discrimination” on the basis of race, which he argued was contrary to the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the equal protection clause of the U.S. Constitution’s Fourteenth Amendment. The Supreme Court, in a highly fractured ruling (six separate opinions were issued), agreed that the university’s use of strict racial quotas was unconstitutional and ordered that the medical school admit Bakke, but it also contended that race could be used as one criterion in the admissions decisions of institutions of higher education. Although the ruling legalized the use of affirmative action, in subsequent decisions during the next several decades the court limited the scope of such programs, and several U.S. states prohibited affirmative action programs based on race.
Better parties at the University of Illinois anyway.
It wouldn’t be legal any more if SCOTUS would issue a decision in the cases against Harvard and UNC. They are taking their sweet time.
I knew homeschoolers with PERFECT scores who were rejected by the Ivies.
But, they all went to other universities where they were happy.
“ It wouldn’t be legal any more if SCOTUS would issue a decision in the cases against Harvard and UNC. They are taking their sweet time.”
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That will be the last or close to the last decision SCOTUS announces this term.
My daughter scored 1570/1600 on SATs, 35/36 on ACTs. Valedictorian, near perfect GPA, all IB and AP courses. Tutored calculus. Speaks 2 languages. Played 2 instruments. State champion swimmer. Life guard, taught toddlers to swim. Volunteer and charity work. Rejected by Harvard, Yale, Princeton and Columbia.
No one wanted a white kid from western NY.
They all bragged about how many foreigners they admitted.
He should have written on his form, “Black Lives Matter” times a hundred.
They did him a favor.
The Dems like to act like robin hood....only they also steal from self made rich, middle, and upper lower class. These people are stolen from by the Dems, especially if those victims don’t share the Dems hypocrisy.
The people who vote for the Dems think they are voting for an ancient group. But that group no longer exist. They can’t shake their historical recollections. The younger voters believe the hype that government is the answer. They are hopelessly lost.
Things look really dark for him. But not black. That’s why his application is being bypassed.
When the earliest civil rights affirmative action plans were being instituted people considered what would happen if you needed delicate surgery and a minority who was unqualified had been pushed upward since middle school, social graduation, quotas followed for college and then a medical school breathing a sigh of relief to meet its percentage by allowing an unqualified student to pass. Then you are on the operating table.
Or in a jumbo jet with a pilot and copilot each at the bottom of their class in training and avoiding being kicked out when the bosses demanded they be called “qualified” to meet a quota and avoid an all white and Asian airline staff based on merit only.
Now such discussions are censored and banned. The truth remains.
The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is. —Winston Churchill.
The racist courts won’t see any problems with the situation
He is better off NOT going to these SO CALLED Ivy leagues MANY companies are staying away from these grads because they are just TO WOKE and their education is NOT what it used to be!!!
Sounds smart and talented enough to succeed at any institution. She needs to go to any institution which is a leader in the field she wants to study. And she needs a school which will give her outside real experience in her chosen field.
When I was in professional school...I worked 28 hours a week in my profession as an intern. Many times, I would tell my professors the full scoop.
There used to be quotas about Jews in colleges. Quotas to LIMIT them. Sometimes 3 or 5 total allowed.
Dr.Jonas Salk who discovered the polio vaccine that saved countless lives was denied entrance to several schools until he found one that allowed more Jews to enter.
Asians who are higher qualified and more intelligent should be allowed to contribute to society-—as the argument used to be about women—or all suffer from that discrimination.
Dr.Joyce Brothers was denied entrance to a doctoral program and told “All women in psychology start out eager but then after a couple of years of leaving with their doctorate get married and have babies and drop the career. The place you would take from a man displaces him from a long and continuous career of helping patients.”
Absolutely correct. My undergrad alma mater student body seems like a large collection of self absorbed drunks and whiners, who need serious reality checks and remedial therapy.
Indeed.
Wang now goes to Georgia Institute of Technology. It’s ranked number 51 in the Global World University Rankings. Its Engineering programs all rank among the top 5 in the United States.
Its in-state is less than $13,000 and out of state tuition is $20,000 less than the ivies on average.
Why insist on going to the Ivies when you can get just as good an education somewhere else? ( the tuition is cheaper too ).
#3 do something about it instead of quietly accepting #1 and #2
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