South Asian male applicants

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Any south Asian male student parents on? Or do any of you have any ideas of how the admission season is panning out for them? It is very tough in our school---south Asian boys even with very high stats and scores and good ECs did not get into ED. Worried parent of a South Asian male junior. Please no politics.

Most applicants don't get into ED unless they are hooked or truly unique or outstanding in the eyes of the school.

[Anonymous]

I wish more parents would learn and understand that the so called rankings of colleges are fairly meaningless. Your super smart hard working kids will be more than fine wherever they go to college. They really will. There are so many, many paths to success and happiness.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Any south Asian male student parents on? Or do any of you have any ideas of how the admission season is panning out for them? It is very tough in our school---south Asian boys even with very high stats and scores and good ECs did not get into ED. Worried parent of a South Asian male junior. Please no politics.

Most applicants don't get into ED unless they are hooked or truly unique or outstanding in the eyes of the school.

Yes, it is ridiculous that people are misunderstanding ED these days and looking at is as a badge of honor or shame.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:You all have such a fixed mindset about intelligence. A lot of it is because of hard work and self discipline, not because they are ‘smart.’

To some extent, yes. But depends on the level of the work. As a student, most people could work their azz off and still couldn't make USAMO (US Math Olympiad). But look at the who dominate the USAMO qualifier lists year over year.

Honestly, no one gives a crap about the Math Olympiad. Seriously.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You all have such a fixed mindset about intelligence. A lot of it is because of hard work and self discipline, not because they are ‘smart.’

To some extent, yes. But depends on the level of the work. As a student, most people could work their azz off and still couldn't make USAMO (US Math Olympiad). But look at the who dominate the USAMO qualifier lists year over year.

Honestly, no one gives a crap about the Math Olympiad. Seriously.

Because you said so? BTW, you used to care when white students dominated the list.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You all have such a fixed mindset about intelligence. A lot of it is because of hard work and self discipline, not because they are ‘smart.’

To some extent, yes. But depends on the level of the work. As a student, most people could work their azz off and still couldn't make USAMO (US Math Olympiad). But look at the who dominate the USAMO qualifier lists year over year.

Honestly, no one gives a crap about the Math Olympiad. Seriously.

Because you said so? BTW, you used to care when white students dominated the list.

+ 1. Remember Spelling Bee?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Asians with high scores only are a dime a dozen. I think issue is it is not they don’t want Asians they need other things.

Football team, basketball team, cheerleaders, artists, actors, liberal arts majors, women studies majors, school band, fraternity and sorority people. You need upper income, lower income, international students, ROTC so on and so on.

My cousin who honestly not sharpest tool went a great school but he was six foot five inch 295 pound star football player of his HS. My sister did not get a scholarship but she was star of her HS plays and even sang on TV. I recall she stared in all her college musicals. Me. I was President of a Fraternity and had season tickets to the teams and did a lot of charity events.

The school is a living breathing community not a cram school based on GPA and SAT scores. I can’t imagine anyone want to go to college like that with 20,000 students who all look alike and thing alike who study all day.

Even my 4.0 genius kids at my college liked to go to games, plays, keg parties, plays. But someone has to do that which is why schools need not only diversity of people but diversity on everything

We've heard about the same lies hundreds of times. It's getting old.

How do they even know they are Asian. I am white but my name is more common for a black person and gives no hint of my nationality and I have no picture when applied to college. Literally put down your name is John Thompson and just not check nationality box.

Asians are funny though. I worked with this lovely Japanese women. On a visa at NYU. We did a lot of work at my firm Bank of Tokyo and Mizuho bank and we need a Japanese speaker also very good at English.

I hire her and my clients are like she is not Japanese even though born and raised in Japan. Apparently her being white in color made her not Japanese. Then they called her AmerAsian but no one in her family is American. Her grandparents were from England. My favorite a few Japanese people born in the USA said she was not Japanese. Wait she is born in Japan and you are born in New York.

Move on folks.

I'm not sure what you are trying to say here but.. The college application has your name, parents' names and your race/ethicity. More than enough info. to know who you are - White, Black, Asian, half and half, whatever.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I am all for it when best University in China let’s in large amount of white, Black and Spanish students

https://www.usnews.com/education/best-global-universities/tsinghua-university-503146

Why should we care? That university is in China for Chinese that we don't really care about. We are talking about *American universities* discriminating against *Americans* because they are not a particular color or is that too fine a point for you to grasp?

If they are Americans why suing as Asians?

Because they are *Asian* Americans and are being discriminated against because of their race/ethnicity. R E A D S L O W L Y. Might take a couple of tries..

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am all for it when best University in China let’s in large amount of white, Black and Spanish students

https://www.usnews.com/education/best-global-universities/tsinghua-university-503146

Why should we care? That university is in China for Chinese that we don't really care about. We are talking about *American universities* discriminating against *Americans* because they are not a particular color or is that too fine a point for you to grasp?

If they are Americans why suing as Asians?

Why do white people have to be racist azz?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I wish more parents would learn and understand that the so called rankings of colleges are fairly meaningless. Your super smart hard working kids will be more than fine wherever they go to college. They really will. There are so many, many paths to success and happiness.

Amen to that. There's so much angst surrounding admission to a college that has its median SAT in the 99th percentile (HYPSM), when the typical backups for these colleges (Michigan, Boston U, Wm. + Mary, Tulane, Villanova, GA Tech, U Maryland, Lehigh, Lafayette, etc.) all have median SATs in the 95th percentile or above. There are lots of ridiculously smart kids at all these places, and like you said, they all have "paths to success and happiness".

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I wish more parents would learn and understand that the so called rankings of colleges are fairly meaningless. Your super smart hard working kids will be more than fine wherever they go to college. They really will. There are so many, many paths to success and happiness.

Amen to that. There's so much angst surrounding admission to a college that has its median SAT in the 99th percentile (HYPSM), when the typical backups for these colleges (Michigan, Boston U, Wm. + Mary, Tulane, Villanova, GA Tech, U Maryland, Lehigh, Lafayette, etc.) all have median SATs in the 95th percentile or above. There are lots of ridiculously smart kids at all these places, and like you said, they all have "paths to success and happiness".

So if you water down standardized testing, everyone will become equally smart? Lovely logic!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I wish more parents would learn and understand that the so called rankings of colleges are fairly meaningless. Your super smart hard working kids will be more than fine wherever they go to college. They really will. There are so many, many paths to success and happiness.

Amen to that. There's so much angst surrounding admission to a college that has its median SAT in the 99th percentile (HYPSM), when the typical backups for these colleges (Michigan, Boston U, Wm. + Mary, Tulane, Villanova, GA Tech, U Maryland, Lehigh, Lafayette, etc.) all have median SATs in the 95th percentile or above. There are lots of ridiculously smart kids at all these places, and like you said, they all have "paths to success and happiness".

So if you water down standardized testing, everyone will become equally smart? Lovely logic!

I don't follow your logic.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I wish more parents would learn and understand that the so called rankings of colleges are fairly meaningless. Your super smart hard working kids will be more than fine wherever they go to college. They really will. There are so many, many paths to success and happiness.

Amen to that. There's so much angst surrounding admission to a college that has its median SAT in the 99th percentile (HYPSM), when the typical backups for these colleges (Michigan, Boston U, Wm. + Mary, Tulane, Villanova, GA Tech, U Maryland, Lehigh, Lafayette, etc.) all have median SATs in the 95th percentile or above. There are lots of ridiculously smart kids at all these places, and like you said, they all have "paths to success and happiness".

So if you water down standardized testing, everyone will become equally smart? Lovely logic!

I don't follow your logic.

If you test people on what 1+1 is, can you really tell who is really better at math?

[Anonymous]

You can click any nationality on form. In my case my parents are both immigrants.

My first name and last name gives no clue to my nationality neither does my parents names.

For instance Juan, Sean, Jean, Johan, Sheik, Ivanko are all
John. If a male is Jean we know he is French.

All white people are immigrants. Germans, Jews, Italians, Polish, Irish suffered horrible discrimination. Large signs at HR offices and job ads said No Irish.

My parents born in another country were given American names in hopes of they move will be easier.

We are a whole country of immigrants. It is just Asians are first to decide easier to Sue.

The blacks had it ten times harder and still do

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You can click any nationality on form. In my case my parents are both immigrants.

My first name and last name gives no clue to my nationality neither does my parents names.

For instance Juan, Sean, Jean, Johan, Sheik, Ivanko are all
John. If a male is Jean we know he is French.

All white people are immigrants. Germans, Jews, Italians, Polish, Irish suffered horrible discrimination. Large signs at HR offices and job ads said No Irish.

My parents born in another country were given American names in hopes of they move will be easier.

We are a whole country of immigrants. It is just Asians are first to decide easier to Sue.

The blacks had it ten times harder and still do

Ummm people of all races have filed lawsuits. Many are a good thing. It's called progress on civil rights.

Maybe learn some history.