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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Is discrimination against Asians and whites that different?
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Yes. Being White is a net-neutral to slightly negative factor.

Being Asian is a materially negative factor.[/quote]

BTW, it seems that the only decisive hook for Asians with HYPS is to make an Olympic team (or win a medal!): Chloe Kim, Eileen Gu, Nathan Chen etc., are all at Princeton, Stanford and Yale respectively.

That's what it takes these days.[/quote]

You understand right, that all elite schools have tons of Asian students, right? Those spots are just more competitive to land. But they are there and full.[/quote]

Hey, it's possible that all 535 Asian students admitted to Harvard this  year (27.2%) are on the Olympic team.  [/quote]

It's not the only way, but it highlights that more is required of Asian Americans to get into these places. They can't just be the stereotypical Asian American grinder (as perceived unfairly by our society).    They need national (or even international) level recognition like those three, or like Tommy Edman of the St. Louis Cardinals (Stanford), Matt Bowman (St Albans/Princeton) formerly of the Cardinals, to give some other examples.

I am an Asian American who went to an Ivy. My own additional hook was that I grew up in the rural South, and I wrote about it in my essays (I guess it was my own version of "Minari").  That worked back then, but I wonder if  it would work now because it's not special enough.

Other Asian Americans reached the same conclusion and resorted to making big donations legally or unfortunately illegally (e.g., Varsity Blues and other such scandals).

It's just the sad situation we all live in.[/quote]

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