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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We are Asian and I have a son with ADHD and a daughter without. I completely reject any notion that boys have it harder overall in their lives. Yes, my son has it terribly hard at school, and yes, it's harder for him to apply to college, because of his race and because of his grades impacted by his ADHD. But male privilege is such that he will be "saved" in his career by being male and given the benefit of the doubt, whereas my daughter, despite great intelligence and functional skills, will always need to prove herself at every rung of the ladder.

So take this recent data in perspective.

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It isn’t harder because he is Asian. Give me a freaking break. [/quote]
data says otherwise.   [/quote]

This thread is about going to college, not going to Yale. [/quote]
A public university like UVA discriminates against Asian-Americans based on race. The UC's are desperately trying to get rid of race-blind policies, primarily to get rid of Asian-American students.

So yes, being an Asian male will make it much harder for him, especially in any engineering school. To disagree with this fact is idiotic.

Of course, he could go to ODU instead and get the "same education and same outcomes". Wonder why its not the rural white kids that benefit from this affirmative action that are told to go to ODU instead, though. [/quote]

Males are struggling with college preparation.  Schools like UNC Chapel Hill have already hit 60% female, and the national average is probably going there in the near future.  There are simply more females who are prepared for college in stats (particularly GPA) and maturity.  But male college graduates still earn significantly more.  Females college graduates make only about 74% as much as the males.  This may in part be because of the majors they choose (service types of jobs vs. engineering, for instance, which has high relative  earnings particularly through mid-career), but that is still a big gap.

Admissions policies tends to favor blacks, then Hispanics, with Asians having to produce the highest average stats.  There was an eye opening study about admissions at Virginia public universities recently .  W&M and UVA in particular had huge deltas in stats between different ethnic groups.  http://ceousa.org/attachments/article/1329/Preferences%20in%20Virginia%20Higher%20Education%20-%20September%202019.pdf [/quote]

CEOUSA is a rightwing thinktank that uses conservative billionaires’ money to push out reports like this to lie to you and me.
Goal is to damage universities since smart people turn away from the Republican Party, and because universities produce scientists that can prevent oil and gas CEOs from profiting off destruction of the planet.[/quote]

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