Asian American student with 1590 SAT score blames affirmative action for rejections from 6 colleges
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Anonymous
| Do you mean the skin color is a qualification? |
Anonymous
| What about dark skinned Indians? Apparently the college admission elites don’t consider that a qualification. |
Anonymous
How are these other issues relevant to this topic? Whataboutism? |
Anonymous
| How about this: Let those Ivys take as many Black students as they want and reject as many Asians and Whites as they want. Just don’t take any government money. Do what Christian Evangelical universities do. |
Anonymous
| What aboutism? Those anti-Asian racists in this forum are the worst offenders of what aboutism. |
Anonymous
Good question! |
Anonymous
Except Christian Evangelical universities do not do this, it's a privilege held by the Ivy League. |
Anonymous
All that's great blah, blah! Let's fund good research through tax $$. No issues there. But let's also make these institutions pay taxes. Same goes for churches, hospitals, etc. (which I'm sure you'll bring up). Tax holidays should not last more than 5 years. if you can't get to be self sustaining by then, shut down and fu*k off! |
Anonymous
| Cut off every all government money. Soon those Ivys will have worse academic reputation than Oral Roberts University. |
Anonymous
👍👍👍 |
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Yes, I’m sure ACB went to the Court to tell Notre Dame to choose between football and their tax-exempt status. (Football players are disproportionately not Asian, you know. Disparate impact! Discrimination!!)
You’ve completely lost the plot. |
Anonymous
No you are not. Nobody is entitled to anything. And I do not see anyone except white kids or asian kids filing lawsuits because they are not admitted to a Top university. Show me a black family or latino family or some other minority family that has sued for that. That's because they don't think they are entitled. They work hard, excel, apply and hope for good results. It is similar to how it is often easier for a smart female to gain admission to engineering or CS programs because those have been largely male dominated fields for decades. So schools are aiming to ensure more women have the opportunity and work hard to ensure a closer to 50/50 mix (best most get to is 60/40 some have gotten better but not many). Yes, it appears it's easier to get in as a female, but in reality that is because many girls have been told they are not good at math/science and have not had their self esteem boosted thru our educational system like boys. So by the time college applicationtime arrives, the girls who are still interested in applying are the really smart ones, the so-so, struggling, ones on the fence have likely already been told "you can't do this" and have given up. So the girls who are apply have self-selected as the upper portion of girls. Whereas the guys have always been told they can do math/science and are more willing to try. So you still have guys applying who are in the "bottom 40/50%" and they don't get in. So for many schools, a higher percentage of girls get into eng/CS programs simply because the lower 20-50% have already disappeared due to how we educate girls. Also, many schools actively attempt to bring their Eng/CS closer to 50/50 M/F so that means many years/decades of admitting more females in hopes they attend and continue to attend. Do you also complain that is not fair? When the real injustice is that women have been restricted for decades. When I was a kid women could not get a credit card without their husband or father signing for it, they did not have their own credit history even if they worked. Women thought their jobs could be a secretary or at most a nurse, but certainly not a lawyer, doctor, PHD in Chemistry, etc. Women growing up in the 40/50/60s did not expect to go to college at the same level as boys in the same environments. Do you think that world was better than today and that we should not have progressed. Once we realize our errors in judgment we then must work to correct for those. And that means encouraging girls to go into STEM. |
Anonymous
I am not aware of any university that doesn’t get government $$s. There was an article about how the Dept of Agriculture loaned a bunch of evangelical schools in rural Iowa and Kansas a bunch of money to keep them from closing. Just one example. |
Anonymous
DP. You think you are smart in the way you are arguing. But it’s stupid. 1. If Ivys don’t take federal research dollars, there will be mass exodus of professors out of ivys and into other top universities. With them go the talented research students. The ivy buildings and ivy past reputation don’t do the research. There are many good universities with excellent professors and students to carry out the research if ivys stop taking federal research funding. Then they can recruit only legacy and development students for all they care (eg. There are men only country clubs and nobody sues them because they don’t take taxpayer money). On another point, it’s not only your tax dollars but also every taxpayer’s dollars are spent on expenses they don’t approve of. So, pipe down. |
Anonymous
It's compromise. |