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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It would depend on how diverse the Asian group was.  The danger is that a university where everyone majors in computer science and plays the violin (a stereotype, I know) isn't going to be as academically strong in other areas.  Harvard isn't just known for producing mathematicians.  It's knowing for producing politicians and climate change activists and great feminist thinkers and theologians and authors and mayors, etc.  Artists.  If the vast majority of those admitted are admitted because they scored really high on the math section of the SAT and have lots of AP statistics courses then it's likely that none of them will write the next great Broadway musical or become a journalist -- particularly if they have parents who actively steer them away from the pursuit of these types of goals.  I was a reader for a prestigious internaitonal scholarship awhile ago and I remember wondering what would happen when everyone who applied for the fellowship was a stats major or data science, or if maybe no one would apply at all. [/quote]

Way to perpetuate the stereotype of Asians being math nerds.  :roll:  These kids are scoring 1500+ on the SATs, which means that they're scoring at least a 700 on the verbal portion of the SAT. [/quote]
The ^PP is math challenged.  Maybe they need to focus on math more. LOL[/quote]

Forgive me but maybe I am too... can you explain?[/quote]

800 is the highest score you can get for both the Verbal and Math sections of the SAT. Asian American math nerds were only good at math and not well rounded, as the PP PP suggested, their total SAT score would not be 1500+. The 1500+ scores that Asian American kids are earning means that even if they are scoring a perfect 800, they are earning at least 700+ on the Verbal section, which is extremely high, and which suggests that the Asian American kids are not just good at math--they are far more academically well rounded than the stereotype suggests.[/quote]

They aren't sorting by test score, that's the point.

Yet, PP was not talking about well rounded in tested ability, but well rounded in interests.  Yes computer science is now a thing, but they need art majors, too.[/quote]

Why are you assuming these Asian applicants are not interested in humanities? The point is you are perpetuating a stereotype.

Also, if colleges were just sorting my major and Asians were only good at and interested in STEM, there would be no need for affirmative action.[/quote][/quote]

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