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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]To quote a good friend: my child would not want to attend a school where their race is a strike against them.

Also, on interview it will be apparent.

Last but not least, don’t you want your child to be proud of who they are?  Dońt teach them to deny their heritage.

For all of these reasons, my child marked Asian on her applications.

(If anything, I think it helped her. She was looking at SLAC’s and many of them struggle with diversity)[/quote]

I don't think this has anything to do with not being proud of their heritage.  It's about avoiding the Asian penalty in schools that in effect have one.  Your DD's school clearly didn't have one.  Other school in effect do.[/quote]

But you are literally advising them to pretend, on paper, that they are a different race. You are saying deny who you are. I would never advise my child (who is chinese) to do that. But then again, I put their self esteem over rankings and status. [/quote]

The thing is that if admissions offices were not hopelessly racist, there would be no need for them to know the applicant's race.[/quote]

You are hopelessly deaf to the argument that colleges seek diverse communities. Hopelessly.

But then again, you probably think your kid is a failure if they get a B and attend anything but an Ivy league college. We all have our blind spots.[/quote]
Idiot, when you discriminate against Asian Americans and force them to get higher scores just to get in, it will lead to more high-stats Asians getting into these colleges rather than more 'well-rounded' or lower scoring Asians (that perhaps you kid could compete with).

Employers and grad-schools are not stupid. At this point they have a clear preference for Asian Americans because they've realized that many public state schools have Asian American students that have far more raw intelligence than white kids in the Ivies.

Ultimately it hurts everyone involved, and white American students will be discriminated against in the job market if they are deserving of the spot - simply because the employer realizes they received an undeserved helping hand in getting into college. This already happens with African Americans. [/quote]

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