Will being half-Asian work against my kids in top college acceptances?

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Anonymous wrote:My kids are half-White and half Indian. Can’t we just say white in applications?

I don’t understand.

Are you under some delusion they would fact discrimination? If anything, Asians are over-represented at competitive colleges and universities.

Why does it matter if one group is over represented in institutions that deal in academic smarts? Black people are over represented in the NBA because the NBA gets to pick top talent. Do you complain about that?

Asian Americans have to score higher in every measure compared to other groups because those institutions look at race. The NBA doesn't look at race. If you want people to be race-blind, then you cannot expect institutions to not be race-blind.

[Anonymous]

Colleges are building communities that learn, live, eat, govern and play together. The 4 years are not just about academic smarts. They are building citizens, but robots.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Asians are OVERREPRESENTED at Harvard by 4x. Despite what Asian parents want us to think, AOs are not discriminating against them. The real problem is that many/most of the high-scoring Asians want to go to the same small set of schools and major in the same subjects (engineering and CS).

Do you have problems with the NBA and NFL as well ? or is overrepresentation as a percentage of population and not as a percentage of the applicant pool a useful trope you like to their out there only for college admissions?

NP here. Huh??? How are NBA and NFL relevant? Universities are creating an educational environment. Part of the is diversity in the student body. NFL and NBA are corporate enterprises. These are not comparable.

Why are they relevant? Really? There is no separate law for corporations vs educational institutions in this country. They are all covered by the same US constitutions and laws. And there is no rule against overrepresentation in one but not in the other unless you are just trying to gaslight

[Anonymous]

Better be half white and Asian than 100 percent Asian. They have it the toughest by far!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Colleges are building communities that learn, live, eat, govern and play together. The 4 years are not just about academic smarts. They are building citizens, but robots.

The fact that you’re equating smarts with robots says a lot of your bigotry due to your lack of intelligence and competitiveness.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My kids are half-White and half Indian. Can’t we just say white in applications?

I don’t understand.

Are you under some delusion they would fact discrimination? If anything, Asians are over-represented at competitive colleges and universities.

Why does it matter if one group is over represented in institutions that deal in academic smarts? Black people are over represented in the NBA because the NBA gets to pick top talent. Do you complain about that?

Asian Americans have to score higher in every measure compared to other groups because those institutions look at race. The NBA doesn't look at race. If you want people to be race-blind, then you cannot expect institutions to not be race-blind.

It matters because you assume there is some rigid set of criteria that universities must apply when what they are really doing is making learning communities. This is largely a subjective exercise, and that’s valid. It’s not like the NBA at all. What an idiotic comparison. Like so idiotic that if this is how you and your family think, it’s no wonder you were rejected.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Better be half white and Asian than 100 percent Asian. They have it the toughest by far!

Why the hell should we prioritize Asians over Americans for slots at American universities? This is insane.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Half-Asian, half-White here. I researched each school and picked white or Asian based on which was underrepresented.

What were the schools where it seemed advantageous to put Asian?

LAC's. I know Asian students that get into Williams and Amherst but got rejected from most top 25 privates.

You can look at the Common Data Set for each college and see where any race is URM, and it will benefit those.

NP. Thank you for this actual, helpful answer.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Better be half white and Asian than 100 percent Asian. They have it the toughest by far!

Why the hell should we prioritize Asians over Americans for slots at American universities? This is insane.

Ummm they're all American. Asian is their race. What are you even talking about?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Better be half white and Asian than 100 percent Asian. They have it the toughest by far!

Why the hell should we prioritize Asians over Americans for slots at American universities? This is insane.

Ummm they're all American. Asian is their race. What are you even talking about?

This is someone voicing step 2 of the process. Step 1 - pit the minorities against each other. Step 2 - exclude the side that wins. Step 3 - bask in making America white again.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Colleges are building communities that learn, live, eat, govern and play together. The 4 years are not just about academic smarts. They are building citizens, but robots.

The fact that you’re equating smarts with robots says a lot of your bigotry due to your lack of intelligence and competitiveness.

+1 ignore that racist imbecile

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Better be half white and Asian than 100 percent Asian. They have it the toughest by far!

Why the hell should we prioritize Asians over Americans for slots at American universities? This is insane.

Americans as in real native Americans who you’ve murdered and stole from? Otherwise Asians are just as American as you are.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Better be half white and Asian than 100 percent Asian. They have it the toughest by far!

Why the hell should we prioritize Asians over Americans for slots at American universities? This is insane.

Asian-AMERICANS you dimwit

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Better be half white and Asian than 100 percent Asian. They have it the toughest by far!

Why the hell should we prioritize Asians over Americans for slots at American universities? This is insane.

Asian-AMERICANS you dimwit

they're not dumb. they know exactly what was meant. they're just saying the quiet part out loud now.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Colleges are building communities that learn, live, eat, govern and play together. The 4 years are not just about academic smarts. They are building citizens, but robots.

The fact that you’re equating smarts with robots says a lot of your bigotry due to your lack of intelligence and competitiveness.

Guess Jeff Yang is also bigoted and unintelligent...according to your way of thinking.

https://www.cnn.com/2015/06/08/opinions/yang-being-less-asian/index.html