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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's funny when affluent whites use all sorts of tactics such as legacy, donation, sports, even bribery, to send their kids to high profile colleges, it's the American way and tradition.

When Asians families try to send their kids to the schools with merit, they say it doesn't matter, and ask why you do that. [/quote]

Asian Americans have the highest HHI of any ethnic group - higher than whites. Nothing is stopping them from doing the donation / bribery / full pay approach. They should be able to beat whites at it because Asians have more money.

Asian Americans, for the same reason, should be able to excel at all the "rich kid" sports that DCUM thinks white people use to sneak their way into college - squash, lacrosse, golf, sailing, equitation, etc. In fact Asian Americans should beat whites at this because the Asian American students ALSO have great academic chops.

Legacy is only a matter of time.

In short, all these things you say whitey uses - you can and should do that too. You can beat whitey at them. Why aren't you? If you aren't then that's on you.

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On average, Asian Americans make more than any other group.  But, the 1%ers who can shell out the kind of donation funds that will buy your kid's way into an elite college are mostly white. That's what happens when a country's elite class was all white, and they kept practices like legacy to keep it white. It's called "opportunity hoarding'.

Asian Americans have this annoying habit of thinking that an academic institution should mostly be about academics rather than athletics. Even so, there are actually a lot more Asian American athletes on the global scene than before, but the numbers are still smaller than "whiteys".    That will probably gradually change, too. [/quote]

Nice cope. Too bad [b]Asian Americans are more than doubly [b]over[/b]represented in the top 1% relative to their share of the overall population.[/b] That's not what's holding them back from buying their way in, if they want to do so.

"Asian Americans have this annoying habit of thinking that an academic institution should mostly be about academics" - the academic system was a lot easier for them to game than the athletic system, where lack of ability is glaringly obvious.

"Asian athlete numbers are still smaller than "whiteys"." - uh, well, in fact they always should be, unless and until the country becomes majority Asian. Which is a long way away but not impossible. [/quote]
It doesn't matter what the whole US population is since the whole of the population is not applying to those colleges.  This argument makes no sense.  Compare to the demographics of the college admit population to that of the applicant pool.  What's the ratio there?

"Lack of ability is glaringly obvious" in athletics.. hm.. is that why so many white parents pay up the nose for expensive coaches and teams?  Because they have real innate athletic talent?  Ok, then.[/quote]

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