Advice for Asians

[Anonymous]

The issue to me is that the playing field is not level.

My understanding of the process is that no one is upgraded or downgraded per se, but what happens is that all everyone is classified into buckets, so all of the white go into one, AA into another, etc. From there the schools set rough guidelines as to the breakdown they would like to see. So if one Ivy decides that it want a class of 10% Asians, it looks at the pool of Asian Americans applicants and compares them to each other and then culls the list down for acceptances. Thus to get accepted as an Asian American, means that you have to beat out the rest of your Asian American peers. That goes for the each of the classified groups. There is never a comparison against the entire pool of candidates.

Thats is why you can have applicants who are denied admission who in every aspect outshine other admitted students. John Chin denied, but John Garcia accepted.

I would love to see what an incoming class at the colleges would look like, if you removed any identifying markers of their applications.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The issue to me is that the playing field is not level.

My understanding of the process is that no one is upgraded or downgraded per se, but what happens is that all everyone is classified into buckets, so all of the white go into one, AA into another, etc. From there the schools set rough guidelines as to the breakdown they would like to see. So if one Ivy decides that it want a class of 10% Asians, it looks at the pool of Asian Americans applicants and compares them to each other and then culls the list down for acceptances. Thus to get accepted as an Asian American, means that you have to beat out the rest of your Asian American peers. That goes for the each of the classified groups. There is never a comparison against the entire pool of candidates.

Thats is why you can have applicants who are denied admission who in every aspect outshine other admitted students. John Chin denied, but John Garcia accepted.

I would love to see what an incoming class at the colleges would look like, if you removed any identifying markers of their applications.

See UC-Berkeley and UCLA as real world examples of your query. Now, it wouldn't be as extreme because California's demographics are not the same as the North East, but the trends would be close.