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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The problem is that too many parents and students are focused on getting into the most elite schools.  For most, even with the highest scores and perfect GPAs, the odds of getting in are rather slim.  HYP accept 5%, 6% and 7% of applicants.  The other 93 - 95 percent are rejected.  Among the rejected applicants, I would be the majority all had the test scores and grades to match the applicants who were accepted. The test scores and grades get you in the door, after that the schools needs to start looking how to differentiate all the Lake Wobegon children from one another and to determine who will be the best fit for their incoming freshman class.  There are limited spaces, and the decision needs to be made at some point about who will be in and who will be out.  How would you differentiate, say, 20 applicants with perfect SATs and a perfect GPA.  Should they all be admitted? [/quote]

Not buying this either.

Yes, colleges will have to exercise discretion and apply mix of objective and subjective criteria for admission, That is reasonable but  these criteria are applied differently based on race. The criticism is not that college admissions office use discretion or have subjective criteria. THEY ARE FINE as long as they are applied consistently and not racially discriminatory.

For example, if AA is given additional consideration for overcoming obstacles, some Asian Americans should be given additional consideration for overcoming obstacles as well such as language barrier, lack of support from parents due to language and cultural issues, being bullied in school, working after school,  etc. The problem is AA will be given a bump for overcoming "obstacles" but Asians will not be given a bump and probably will be held to a higher standard even with demonstrated obstacles and viewed as "robots, drones, lacking creativity and one-dimensional etc." and other descriptions commonly thrown around on this forum without a second though.

The bottom line that people can get away with name calling and marginalizing Asian Americans because there won't be protests/riots whereas it is more "politically correct" to give AA a leg up and avoid marginalizing AA.[/quote]

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