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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]F Harvard. They’re cancelled for my half Indian family.[/quote]
+1000 coming from an immigrant family this was one of the few top schools I had heard growing up. But I’m so nauseated by their discrimination and wish more Asian families knew this.[/quote]

It’s amazing to me that families that clearly value education don’t do their research on college and go for the same few brand name schools instead of seeing the educational value of so many others.  It always feels like prestige chasing but maybe it’s really ignorance.[/quote]

I think it's mostly ignorance. Most of those who are resentful are in families that recently immigrated (kids are first or second generation) from countries that choose students for their universities based solely on numbers. Some of those countries foolishly give preference when hiring to students from the most difficult universities to gain entry to, not realizing how many of their most capable citizens are either late bloomers or poor test takers or too poor to have the means to prepare or are amazing leaders but a bit less capable intellectually or whatever.

And most of those who come to the US are in the top few percent in intelligence (which makes us very lucky to have them join us) and have expectations that this intellectual ability guarantees them a spot at one of the colleges everyone in their country of origin has heard of. What they don't realize is that the differences between that group of schools and their safeties in terms of quality of education are miniscule (and often actually favor the less selective colleges), so there's no need to fret. But they do, and then some of them try to change the very different American system that they mistakenly believe is biased against them in order to get what they want, not realizing that it will have no impact on their future success.

It would be really interesting to see a Dale and Kruger-like analysis of the outcomes for recent immigrants who are admitted to elite colleges vs. those who were turned down but had the same GPAs/Test scores. I'll bet the results would look very similar to the 30 years of data they've already analyzed.[/quote]

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