Posted on 07/05/2023 11:44:08 PM PDT by Cronos
Harvard University admitted a record number of Asian American students to its class of 2027, a move experts are wary of celebrating given the drop in admissions of most other minority groups. It comes as the Supreme Court continues deliberations on a lawsuit brought against Harvard by a right-wing group that alleges race-conscious admissions discriminate against white and Asian students.
In a breakdown of the incoming class released by the university last week, Harvard revealed that 29.9% of admitted applicants are Asian American. It’s a 2.1% jump from last year’s number.
“It’s been part of a long-term trend,” admissions Dean William R. Fitzsimmons told The Harvard Crimson. “The percentages have been going up steadily. It’s not a surprise.”
There are a couple of possible reasons for this, said Julie Park, an associate professor at the University of Maryland who studies racial equity in high education. One could be an increase in Asian American legacy admits, which favors children of Harvard alumni in the admissions process. It also coincides with a population growth of Asian American young adults and high school graduates in the U.S. generally.
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I am not surprised at the least. Good for them.
That was fast.
Wasn’t the lockdown designed to hurt black and Hispanic students the most?
Black’s seem to need more “special” help.
Why is that?
I did not get it nor did anybody I went to university with.
Bottom line is “you snooze you lose”.
Don’t want to get off your butt and study, then you dig, go to jail, or generally are despised by people that work hard.
Sorry but that is life and it is not fair for anybody except Obama.
I think, instead of Affirmative action, scholarships for students from lower income families would be better
Late 70s...I joined the Air Force and worked with a guy who’d grown up in a urbanized area of Kentucky...going to a school that around 70-percent black. By the 10th grade, he realized the school (even in mid-70s) was staffed with teachers who weren’t that qualified or smart. He figured he maxed out on knowledge by the 10th grade.
I would imagine if you analyzed most urbanized schools with a high population of minorities...it’s the same way today, and colleges are trying to overlook the disparity in levels of knowledge.
What else can you do?
The article doesn’t say the 2.1% increase is related to the Supreme Court ruling.
It says the percentage of Asian Americans admitted has been increasing year after year.
It says the reasons are (1) the increase in the Asian American population and (2) an increase in Asian Americans admitting as children of alumni.
More black doctors, lawyers, engineers, nurses etc graduate from black colleges.
I can’t understand why someone, anyone, would apply to Harvard or any expensive hard-to-get-in-school, if they’re not qualified to get in?
So the the three SCOTUS justices believe that we should have a quota for minorities at all schools, including Harvard?
IOWs you apply and you are accepted because of your race.
YOur grades and test scores are lower than the other students.
The tests you take will be graded separately, so that your score will not be compared to the rest of the class.
You get your diploma, but you did not achieve the same test scores as the other students.
THe best qualified people should get into the best schools.
Why do you have to go to a Harvard type school if you’re not qualified?
I'll suggest a couple: Genetics, strong families.
That’s the ticket. Scour the country for really bright black and hispanic kids and give them a financial leg up (and tutoring if they need it to catch up). As opposed to admitting kids who really ought to be attending a community college instead (Michelle Obama and Ketanji Brown Jackson come to mind.
The anti American bias of this “new story” is appalling.
Anyone who believes in the Constitution and equal protection is “right wing.”
This article is from April of 2023, a couple of months before the recent SCOTUS ruling.
So that you have a nice Rolodex of contacts for the business world. And after four years you have been taught to hate your family, society, capitalism, heterosexuality, God, any hint of Judeo-Christian morality, and you have become an insufferable prick because of your belief in the superiority of your school and the school's efforts to keep you at the emotional level of a narcissistic five year old, you are fully ready to get a job in the workforce. Also, you owe $300,000.
I don’t know why Asians would want to waste their money getting a useless Harvard degree. I would never hire a Harvard graduate. They don’t teach critical thinking anymore. They are producing leftist drones.
Give me a night School graduate who flipped hamburgers in high school and paid for their higher education by working an 8-5 job while getting their degree.
All sides of the spectrum argue endlessly about how to get their preferred racial and political group through the gates of America’s elite institutions like Harvard, Wall Street, Fortune 500 co’s etc...
NO ONE asks - why do these few institutions of the oligarchy have such power over us in the first place? Perhaps we should “open up” America so people can succeed outside of these few halls of centralized power and wealth.
I don't know what world you live in, but Harvard is, more than ever, a golden-ticket. Do you want to work in the halls of power in Washington DC? In the vast US tech and security state? on Wall Street manipulating our fake, printed currency?
Harvard won't guarantee you success, but it WILL get you in the door.
Sadly, that's how our country is organized now.
“Harvard won’t guarantee you success, but it WILL get you in the door.”
I think it will guarantee success if using the criteria in today’s messed-up country.
Developing organizational tools and fostering good study habits for effecient study during K-12 really does work.
I think it would help better than AA.
Look at “black” students who are first generation immigrants from Africa. They have strong families that support them, they study as they know that will get them ahead and they are industrious.
it’s not race, it’s educational culture.
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