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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Asian students have higher average SAT scores than any other group, including whites. A study by Princeton sociologist Thomas Espenshade examined applicants to top colleges from 1997, when the maximum SAT score was 1600 (today it’s 2400). Espenshade found that Asian-Americans needed a 1550 SAT to have an equal chance of getting into an elite college as white students with a 1410 or black students with an 1100.

This research was published in a PUP book called No Longer Separate, Not Yet Equal: Race and Class in Elite College Admission and Campus Life by Thomas J. Espenshade & Alexandria Walton Radford (a free excerpt here: http://press.princeton.edu/chapters/s9072.pdf)[/quote]
White people should view asians as more of a threat to their kids' chances of getting into an elite college than blacks and hispanics.  I would say be careful what you wish for, but unfortunately for them, it's too late.[/quote]

Again 72% of Asians have college degrees. No one is discriminating against them. They’re still going to colleges/universities. Only 43% of white hold a college degree. They’re upset that 100% of Asian students who apply to Harvard are not accepted.[/quote]

I think that Asians have the right to be angry- when the bar is set so much higher than for other people, even whites.

Look, I get it. This is going to hurt everyone. But I am so tired of people saying Asians have parents that are better. You are by default also saying Blacks, Whites and Hispanics are bad parents.

But let’s be honest- calling Asians the victims because they work hard and have good parents is EXACTLY THE SAME as calling Whites, Blacks and Hispanics lazy with bad parents.

And though I haven’t gone through the whole 237 decision- I wouldn’t be surprised is something like that is actually why affirmative action was overturned today.

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