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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kids are half-White and half Indian.  Can’t we just say white in applications?  [/quote]

I don’t understand.

Are you under some delusion they would fact discrimination? If anything, Asians are over-represented at competitive colleges and universities.[/quote]
Why does it matter if one group is over represented in institutions that deal in academic smarts?  Black people are over represented in the NBA because the NBA gets to pick top talent. Do you complain about that?

Asian Americans have to score higher in every measure compared to other groups because those institutions look at race. The NBA doesn't look at race. If you want people to be race-blind, then you cannot expect institutions to not be race-blind.[/quote]

It matters because you assume there is some rigid set of criteria that universities must apply when what they are really doing is making learning communities. This is largely a subjective exercise, and that’s valid. It’s not like the NBA at all. What an idiotic comparison. Like so idiotic that if this is how you and your family think, it’s no wonder you were rejected.[/quote]
If these institutions want diverse learning communities, then why do they only select those with top scores in the respective groups?

Are you telling me that they want a C student with a 980 SAT score who happens to be Asian American and went to a poor school for diversity sake?

Those types of schools are very concerned about the rank and scores, which is why they only want students who score very high.  There aren't too many high scoring students in a particular group, so they have to make do with what is available.[/quote]

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