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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think high-achieving Asian-Americans are also being hurt by a simultaneous trend of colleges (and the general public) beginning to question the value of test-taking.

In the old days, it was simple. Getting into a decent college meant taking an entrance exam (assuming you were white and male). There is an increasing tendency to look at a whole basket of factors, slightly diminishing the singular value of GPA and test scores. I don't think that this is solely done to marginalize Asian-Americans, but it does have that effect. [/quote]

It's not just higher test scores and GPAs. Asian Americans are rejected despite having excellent ECs, leadership potential, volunteering, awards/recognition in addition to high SAT score and GPA. Asians generally excel in these other areas compared to other groups and still get rejected year in and year out hence the discrimination claim. [/quote]

What's more, a lot of high-achieving Asian kids come from families with nothing.  Their parents came to the US literally with the clothing on their backs.  It's interesting to look back 40 years later on the fall of South Vietnam and recall the families who arrived in refugee camps with nothing.  They couldn't speak English.  They faced discrimination in many areas where they were settled.  Many lived in poverty. (Not just in places like Louisiana, even the liberal then--and-now-Gov. Jerry Brown of California said that the Vietnamese "should stay in Vietnam.").

Yet today, their children (or in some cases grandchildren) not only are ineligible for affirmative action, but they actually face quotas on university admissions.  Meanwhile, universities extend preferential treatment to the sons and daughters of African-American professionals, among others.  If that isn't blatantly unconstitutional racial discrimination, I don't know what is.[/quote]

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