Anonymous
Post 08/18/2017 09:15     Subject: Re:DD is half Asian, half white. Is one better to declare for college applications?
Anonymous wrote:I check other.


My fear with "other" is that it probably lumps you in with whatever the least favored demographic is for admission consideration. They're not going to let you avoid their race/gender preferences by checking "other" or "sysgen".

If you're going to provide preference for anyone, I like the approach of 1st generation college. It takes race and gender politics out of it and goes directly to providing opportunities to young people who probably haven't had the same educational benefits as others.
Anonymous
Post 08/17/2017 21:25     Subject: Re:DD is half Asian, half white. Is one better to declare for college applications?
I check other.
Anonymous
Post 08/17/2017 20:22     Subject: DD is half Asian, half white. Is one better to declare for college applications?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Those who are unhappy with present admissions criteria at top colleges: would you advocate for a change to a process that looks solely at test scores and grades/class rank? Are you asking schools to drop the practice of considering outside activities, essays, recommendations, interviews?

I'd like to hear suggestions to change the policies to be more acceptable to those who find present practices unacceptable.


Look at all the above but drop comparing candidates within racial and legacy.


Thanks for responding. How would we check to know it's being done in the preferred way?

Interested in suggestions from others, also.

Give applicants IDs rather than having their names on them. Names give it away. Of course, the interview would give it all away, but most public colleges don't do interviews.


I think no names is a good idea.

Most of the top 25 or 30 schools are private, not public. Interviews could be done on the phone, so the interviewer would not see the applicant.

It would be interesting to see what a class at one of the top non-STEM schools would be like with just a change to no names and phone interviews.
Anonymous
Post 08/17/2017 19:53     Subject: Re:DD is half Asian, half white. Is one better to declare for college applications?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Imagine being half Jewish, half Asian. Hated by bigots everywhere.


this is the future super-class.

zuck's kid

amy chua's daughters.

han-chinese + ashkenazi jew - IQ minimum is like 130.

in 50 years, this group will be running everything.


Yeah, no sterotypes or pseudoscience behind your beliefs.
Anonymous
Post 08/17/2017 19:43     Subject: DD is half Asian, half white. Is one better to declare for college applications?
DO you like tacos? If so, I'd pick Hispanic/Latino.
Anonymous
Post 08/16/2017 19:39     Subject: DD is half Asian, half white. Is one better to declare for college applications?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Those who are unhappy with present admissions criteria at top colleges: would you advocate for a change to a process that looks solely at test scores and grades/class rank? Are you asking schools to drop the practice of considering outside activities, essays, recommendations, interviews?

I'd like to hear suggestions to change the policies to be more acceptable to those who find present practices unacceptable.


Look at all the above but drop comparing candidates within racial and legacy.


Thanks for responding. How would we check to know it's being done in the preferred way?

Interested in suggestions from others, also.

Give applicants IDs rather than having their names on them. Names give it away. Of course, the interview would give it all away, but most public colleges don't do interviews.
Anonymous
Post 08/16/2017 19:33     Subject: Re:DD is half Asian, half white. Is one better to declare for college applications?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Yet another reason why it's important to do a holistic approach than just look at scores. Many of the scores are inflated.

"Those enrolled in private and suburban public high schools are being awarded higher grades—critical in the competition for college admission—than their urban public school counterparts with no less talent or potential, new research shows. . . . These findings are troubling, but not surprising, said Richard Weissbourd, the director of the Human Development and Psychology program at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. 'To be attractive to parents,” private schools in particular, Weissbourd said, “need to be able to tout how many of their students went to selective colleges. So they’re incentivized to give better grades.' The same concern about college admission drives parents of students in suburban schools to pressure principals and teachers, he said. 'It becomes very high maintenance for schools to deal with aggressive parents. So that can also push grades up.'"

https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2017/08/suburban-grade-inflation/536595/


Those who benefit the most from the above findings are white students since they make up most of the private school student populations. In addition, white parents in suburban public schools are the ones pressuring teachers for higher grades not other groups. So white students benefit most from the "grade inflation" and Asian students have to show even higher gpas compared to white students.


And this cuts against the brown kids (black, hispanic, whatever) have lower scores argument. Of course they do, they don't get the benefit of grade inflation in their schools.
Anonymous
Post 08/16/2017 19:00     Subject: Re:DD is half Asian, half white. Is one better to declare for college applications?
Anonymous wrote:Imagine being half Jewish, half Asian. Hated by bigots everywhere.


this is the future super-class.

zuck's kid

amy chua's daughters.

han-chinese + ashkenazi jew - IQ minimum is like 130.

in 50 years, this group will be running everything.
Anonymous
Post 08/16/2017 18:41     Subject: Re:DD is half Asian, half white. Is one better to declare for college applications?
Anonymous wrote:Imagine being half Jewish, half Asian. Hated by bigots everywhere.


Oh please. Nowhere as bad as being Mexican or Guatemalan in this country where everyone assumes you're illegal and part of MS13. At least you don't have to worry about getting deported and you always have a home in Israel.

And at least there is no risk if you are 'Driving While Asian' or 'Driving While Jewish' as there is for AA male youth.
Anonymous
Post 08/16/2017 16:26     Subject: Re:DD is half Asian, half white. Is one better to declare for college applications?
Anonymous wrote:Imagine being half Jewish, half Asian. Hated by bigots everywhere.


So true. I'm hoping that means they inherit the best of both worlds though to give them strength.