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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I agree with the ruling. The open racism
against Asian students boggled my mind. There has also been a large anti white male issue happening and now less white males even go to college than before.The differences in criteria have been unfair. You even see this in kids who grew up on same street and parents make same money but are various ethnicities. Like many things people push things until enough people say no. I do think the SAT will be gone soon because schools will look to find away around this. FWIW I always thought the SAT was also unfair because you need to spend so much money in tutoring and for every genius that doesn’t need it you have thousands more kids who need the tutoring to get over these crazy scores. [/quote]

Many people don't want to admit that Asians, as a group, are very smart. Their intelligence shows up at a very ypung age in preschool and elementary school settings, long before private tutoring or SAT prep. [/quote]

Umm, this is not true.  I live in a predominantly Asian neighborhood - their kids receive TONS of tutoring from an early age.  They are not "naturally" smart anymore than any other child.[/quote]

This is true. Their parents really push academics and excelling at activities to get them into top colleges. My child participates in fencing and the parents are unrelenting on achievement.[/quote]

I can confirm that many of the Asian students at my DC's public ES in a UMC neighborhood in NOVA got tutoring starting around age 5. They were also enrolled from a young age in STEM-related enrichment activities both after school and in the summer. They were also more likely to play musical instruments beyond the early years of ES. They can't all be naturally more intelligent or musically gifted than other students. Unless you believe that some races are superior to other races at the genetic level. 
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Because their parents actually give a crap and value education. That's not privilege, that's having a parent who parents and makes every sacrifice possible for their children.

I know, it's shocking right? When parents parent, outcomes are usually pretty good.[/quote]

I agree with this. My kids are Jewish and they identify most with the other high achieving Asian kids. Until the 1960s, it was my forebears that were discriminated against at the top colleges so I have a lot of sympathy for other high achieving groups that feel discriminated against. We have tutored our kids in reading and math from an early age as well as engaged in STEM-related enrichment activities and it's paid off immensely in their academic achievements. We look at school as starting point and add enrichment and additional support from there. I recognize this is a privileged position to be in but parenting and individual agency matter. Not every one can or will. Instead of arbitrarily trying to shoehorn people into universities by race or lowering the achievement standards for all, maybe do the hard work of investing in underprivileged communities or building a better social safety net so that inequality is reduced. Or, as others have said, maybe focus on affirmative action by socioeconomic status. That may result in more poor whites as well as members of all races gaining admission to these universities. [/quote]

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