How to Get Into an Ivy League College: Many a Truth Has Been Said in Jest...
This is a funny post from Ivy Gate Blog, How To Get Into An Ivy League School: A Step-by-Step Guide Featuring Testimony From a Real, Live Silver-Spoon Legacy and a Racial Minority! by Maureen...
View ArticleWhat Ethnic Groups Benefit From Affirmative Action for College Admissions?
This is a great article that sums up the issues that make Affirmative Action outdated. Asian Americans: Those with Southeast Asian origins tend to be lower income and less educated than their...
View ArticleQuotas for Asian American College Applicants? Yes and No
From The Washington Post Ed Chin is the lone voice out there that also is righteously aggrieved about the discrimination against Asian Americans who apply to elite, private colleges. Yes, these...
View ArticleAsian Americans and Admissions at Brown University
This is from the horse’s mouth. Ivy League college Brown University and their admissions policies with regard to Asian Americans. If you want to read more on why you shouldn’t identify as Asian...
View ArticleWhite House Urges Colleges To Get Creative in Improving Racial Diversity at...
The Obama administration has released new guidelines on race and college admissions that turn Bush era policies on its head. Colleges and universities are now getting the green light to use ethnicity...
View ArticleAffirmative Action Case Splits Asian Americans: Are You For or Against?
Asian American lawyers have taken a strong stand on university affirmative action in the case to be heard by the U.S. Supreme Court this week — and on opposite sides of the issue. This is an old...
View ArticleDo Legacy Preferences Count More Than Race When Applying to Elite Colleges?
Well, if you think that checking the box for Asian will help you get into elite private college, you need to know about the SAT “tax” for Asians because we’re “over-represented” at top colleges. If...
View ArticleHarvard/Princeton Targeted in U.S. Asian-American Discrimination Probe...
“The prevailing college admission policy artificially places highly qualified Asian-American applicants to compete against each other rather than against the general pool of all applicants, instilling...
View ArticleHow Diversity Punishes Asians, Poor Whites and Lots of Others
Russell K. Nieli received his Ph.D. in political philosophy from Princeton University and currently works for Princeton’s James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions. He has been a...
View ArticleDon’t Check ‘Asian’ When Applying to College?
Asian kids know that when you look at the average SAT for the school, they need to add 50 or 100 to it. If you’re Asian, that’s what you’ll need to get in. Kara Miller, reviewed applications for Yale...
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