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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]^ there are literally hundreds of these accepts/rejects posts on CC. not sure if hand-picking 3 examples to fit  your point proves anything. [/quote]Take it any way you want, twist and distort any way you want.  I could care less.  Bottom line is that the holistic method works and affords an opportunity to those who would never get a shot IF used properly.

You can victimize all you want but the bottom line is that there are just so many seats, no one race is getting all of them, and I applaud the holistic approach.  Otherwise the Asian student would not have been accepted over other Asians with PERFECT scores of which there are many.

Finished.[/quote]

I hope the Asians now attending Ivies get involved with activities. I went to an Ivy with lots of Asians but most contributed very little to the campus atmosphere. All most did was study. A few were better assimilated and actually got involved with things, but most might as well have taken distance-learning classes. [/quote]

And how many Asians did you actually hang out with? I went to an Ivy in a very elite program where three quarter were Asians. No one was involved in a lousy fraternity where people drank too much, but we did all sorts of activities ranging from business associations to women's groups to acapella groups. Now we are all top finance/law/start up/hedge fund professionals. Do we threaten you?[/quote]

You bored me then, and it sounds like you're just as boring now. Please don't try to ruin our schools - and, yes, our ancestors founded them, not yours - any more than you have already. [b]I'm sure there are schools in China where you can learn to code, hack websites, and short mortgage bonds.[/b][/quote]

Not very nice a all, and uncalled for.
Having said that, the Asians have no more "right" to get into the Ivies than anyone else.
They have Cal. Berkeley, U.Va. etc. 
And it troubles me a bit they're fighting for an even higher rate of over-representation than they already have.  
Their gains of course must come at the expense of URMs and athletes, and legacies (which are lawful so far as I know).[/quote]

UVa?  Nice try.[/quote]

? could you explain what you mean? Half of TJ's graduating class goes to UVA - like a couple of hundred kids a year. Most of these are Asian.  So not sure what you mean.[/quote]

Asians aim higher.[/quote]

Asian-Americans do not consider UVA a top school. UVA is a cheap back up if you do not get into a top school. I'm from the Northeast and went to Harvard. Asians and Asian-Americans are better accepted and respected in the north.[/quote]

Indeed.[/quote]

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