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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Should a school be 100% Asian? [/quote]

If that's who qualifies, why not. It's not going to happen though. What you will see is more Asians and other groups that put hard work and education first culturally, followed by hard-working other minorities who struggle with education on a cultural level.

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"Qualifies" by what standard?  The debate seems to be that some think it should be based on he highest test scores, GPA and apparently, the most ECs.  Others, myself included, see the value in finding applicants that aren't just checking boxes.  I have a child who is passionate (I mean really passionate) about science. She isn't quite ready for college yet, but I suspect her scores will be good (she's very bright and we could certainly coach her).  She has several science related ECs because she loves them.  She did Latin Club.  On the first day of Latin Club, they asked who was there because their parents made them do it and every hand in the room went up except my dd and her friend.  I think there is a real differnce between a kid like my DD, who is passionate about education, and the automatons that are merely filling their resume (I'm not singling out Asian students as our school has students of other races that are more concenprned about the college application process than education).  I suspect my child will not get into an ivy if she applies because she doesn't do sports ((other than fencing and martial arts) and she doesn't have a million ECs because she likes to have time to write and draw.  I'm ok with it if she doesn't get in but I really think a more holistic approach gets kids like my dd who are passionate about learning rather than the kids who are doing it for heir parents' egos.  My DD will be fine and probably even excel wherever she goes so we're trying to not get too involved in the college admissions arms race.[/quote]

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