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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am the parent of a South Asian male senior.  This is how it is playing out - excellent EC, top grades, rigorous curriculum, top SATs, prestigious internships. job, community service, national and state level honors, good recommendations, great essays etc... but riding the rejection train currently.  We are full pay family.

My kid is brilliant and in STEM field, so he will be ok even in a not-top college.  Eventually, he will be employed because of his skills and because barrier to entry is high for his career choice.  He refused to lie on his application and clearly said that he wanted to do CS or Engineering...which is death knell for South Asian males.  Maybe he will go via the community college route? Who knows.

Basically, savvy SA people are going for CS/Engineering - adjacent majors along with another humanities major like gender studies/ women studies/LGBTQ studies etc. Most are also pretending that they are bisexual or binary (using They/Them) and writing in their essays that their South Asian parents have been beating the sh1t out of them because of their sexuality. All of this is allowing them to get into Ivy Leagues.  My son did not have the appetite for that so that is that...

Also, by being denied admissions because of his race has made him more savvy about racial-politics in USA. His blinders are off, and hopefully this will teach him to be less idealistic and more capable of looking out for his own interests in the future. [b]USA is all about screwing every one else,[/b] and this lesson was very important for him to learn. [/quote]

I don’t disagree that being South Asian (or any kind of Asian) puts a kid at a disadvantage for college admissions.

However, I take issue with your last comment.  Sounds like you want to find a reason to hate the USA.  I hope you have family in India or Pakistan (or whichever country you are from).  The culture there is very much about looking our for yourself and screw what happens to ‘others’.

[b]The reason Asians are discriminated against here in the US is because Blacks and Latinos have a harder time and the US colleges are trying to adjust for that. [/b] [/quote]

DP.  This is a false narrative.  Asian students are not competing against these minorities but with Whites.  [b]The Human perspective seems to be "Let me make sure me and mine are taken care of first and then I'll help the groups I want to promote because I feel good about i[/b]t".

I'm all for set-asides for people with at least 75% Blacks or Native American heritage.  Why Hispanics?  Why for recent immigrants from South American, Spain or Nigeria?  Beyond that it should be based on means.  Not that difficult to codify this so we all know what we are walking into.

And no, colleges can't do what they feel like.  They are publicly subsidized (including the Private schools) and can be made to follow such guidelines.[/quote]

Fixed it for you.

- Evolutionary biologist[/quote]

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