Reply to Harvard's odd quota on Asian-Americans

Forum Index » College and University Discussion

Reply to "Harvard's odd quota on Asian-Americans"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It sounds like the discrimination might not end once a student is admitted to a university.
Here is a NPR story from last year about a Wharton study which documents that students with Asian names are the least likely to receive a response from a faculty member upon receipt of a letter asking for a meeting.  6500 letters were mailed to faculty all over the country.  The letters were identical except for the name of the student.

http://www.npr.org/2014/04/22/305814367/evidence-of-racial-gender-biases-found-in-faculty-mentoring[/quote]

These aren't post-admissions letters.  They were the equivalent of cold calls. 'I admire your work; can we meet?  Doesn't excuse the differential rates of response, but also doesn't indicate how professors will deal with the students they're actually responsible for.  Basically all the letter gave the addressee to work with was a name -- no affiliation, no comment on the substance of the work, etc.[/quote]

So do you really think that the study does not suggest that these professors would probably treat their Asian students differently?[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics