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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What Asians should do is collectively boycott Harvard for a year or two. There are other Ivy League schools. There are schools like Cal Tech, MIT, UChicago, Stanford, JHU, and SLACs. It's doubtful Harvard can maintain its status for long. [/quote]

That could potentially bring Harvard down to NYU, NW, WashU, USC, BU, Duke, Rice, Vandy...[/quote]
It would certainly bring down their average SAT scores.

It really makes laugh that some people denigrate Asian American students for studying too hard, taking prep classes, which all help increase SAT scores, but then these same people like to tout how high their school's test scores are.  Newsflash: your test scores wouldn't be as high without those "robotic, test-prepping" Asian American students.[/quote]

I’m not sure it would necessarily bring down their SAT scores.  My underis that they could fill the class several times over with applicants with near perfect scores.  Certainly, they are not all Asian.  Plenty of other non-Asian kids ( more than enough to fill the class) have perfect scores.

Before you accuse me of being racist, i’m Not saying what is happening is fair.  I’m just saying that plenty of non-Asian kids have good scores, too.  There is just a large number of Asian kids with good scores so ther percentage is high.  Admission to these schools is a crap shoot for everyone and holistic admissions make it  even less predictible, but if there is indeed a thumb on the scale against Asian kids, that is not right.[/quote]
Maybe, but statistically, it's the Asian American students who score the highest.  They have a lot of applicants with near perfect scores because many are Asian American. If they left, statistically, those scores would go down.

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