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[quote=Anonymous][url]http://mcc.gse.harvard.edu/files/gse-mcc/files/20160120_mcc_ttt_execsummary_interactive.pdf?m=1453303460[/url]

Here's the link to the report signed by the admissions directors of Harvard, Yale, Princeton, MIT among others. As you see, it is explicitly designed to help the strivers from (including Asian-Americans) by recognizing what young people do for their families and emphasizing quality over quantity in extra-curriculars. It's about recognizing talent comes in many forms - those who overcome limited economic circumstances, make the best of the educational opportunities afforded them, and have a commitment to others are remarkable.

For those of you who seem to see this only through a racial/ethnic lens, think of the child of recent immigrant restaurant workers who can't go on a paid overseas service project or lives in a school district that doesn't offer 10+ AP classes but works to help her parents pay the rent and is deeply involved in tutoring younger versions of herself.  It's not reasonable to say she's any less qualified for the Ivies than my upper middle class child with literally every advantage in life simply because she scored 100 points lower on the SAT and didn't grow up reading the New Yorker every week.[/quote]

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