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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]That's a pretty biased summary, but I'll bite.

As a Chinese-American parent, I want my DC to be evaluated as an individual based on his own achievement and characteristics.  When you focus on group claims that Asian-Americans are "better" on average because they have higher test scores and grades, then you also might have to accept that the group on average may have personality traits that are "lesser" too.  There is a cost to immigrant parents who insist that their children follow a narrow path of grinding at grades and test scores and playing a classical instrument.  Often that cost is not developing the ability to "play well with others" which is at the core of empathy, respect, and leadership.

I've met dozens of really smart Asian-American college applicants who could not or did not know how to talk about how to persuade or lead others. And I've met many others who were great at it.  The ones who are leaders and have great grades and scores get in to Harvard and other elite schools at many times their representation in the population.  As a group, we're still grossly over represented after screening out the followers.  As I tell new immigrant parents all the time, there is no gaokao in the US and getting a perfect GPA and SAT score is not sufficient to get into the top colleges.[/quote]

This argument is a red herring. Harvard consistently devalues "Asian personal traits" so that they can reduce the number from a possible "46% to approx 18% to 20%. That is clear in the data. That is the problem, not that Aisan Americans are one dimensional. They are looking for ways to reject Asians to keep their numbers low[/quote]

WTF is an "Asian personal trait?" [/quote]

Asian personality trait is how people when get when they never had a childhood due to excessive studying and pressure from domineering parents to get good grades. They lack imagination, original thoughts and interpersonal skills. = APT.[/quote]

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