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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not wise to view any group as one uniform monolith. Even within groups and within families, there are different social and economic experiences. I’m Indian-American and there’s a difference between the first wave that came during the 60’s and 70’s (doctors and engineers), the second wave who came during the 80’s (business people and factory workers) and then the more recent “tech immigrant wave”. Some subgroups are more privileged than others. [/quote]

[b]Differentiation is true and present within any group; for example: many caucasians are poor and reliant on SNAP benefits, as has recently been highlighted.  But that doesn’t render privilege false.[/b]

But the same measure, Indian / Asian privilege must also be acknowledged here, and the most obvious demonstration of that fact is in current admissions statistics.  Another validating data point is household income.  Again, anecdotal evidence does not invalidate the reality of Asian privilege in America.[/quote]

But it certainly makes applying the assumption of privilege to any individual a fool’s errand at best and racist at worst.

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+1 applicants need to be evaluated as individuals [/quote]

No one is being evaluated as as an individual when a school receives tens of thousands of applications.

This also sounds like holistic admissions which is unpopular with a lot of people here.[/quote]

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