When applying to the top schools in the U.S., with the same regular grades and test scores, blacks can sweep the Ivy League schools while Asians can't even touch the doors of the Ivy League schools. Here's why it's easier for blacks to apply to America's top schools.
Do you remember a while ago, an Indian boy applied to a US medical school as an Asian, and was rejected several times, and finally became a black boy by disguising himself, and successfully applied to a famous US school?
This incident has shocked a lot of people, but at the same time, it also makes us question the so-called "fairness" of the U.S. schools, so what do you think about this incident?
Discuss in the comments section with your advisor below!
I can only generalize and say that basically American universities have a low percentage of international students, about ten percent. If you don't have U.S. citizenship, you're an international student, and you can't compete with native students at this rate. This is also the reason why a native American student can go to Harvard with Sat1800. And what color the student is isn't the point, if he's black but not a US citizen, he's just as much a part of that ten percent of students.
It's just that some universities emphasize the diversity of their student body, and even if a lot of Chinese students meet the admissions requirements, they don't admit all Chinese students, they still give some of their places to other international students to achieve a certain balance. So when the Asian students are very good at what they do, the other international students don't feel like they have an advantage.
In fact, the U.S. schools are not discriminating against Asians, so I'd like to say a few words about that.
According to the Daily Mail, in 2008, there were two Asian students who applied to Ivy League schools and were rejected.
The two students then filed a lawsuit against Princeton, suing the school for alleged racial discrimination in the admissions process.
Federal investigators launched a seven-year investigation into a number of schools, including Princeton, and the final finding was that Princeton did not discriminate against applicants from Asian ethnic groups
Princeton's official statement was that --It's hard to tell Asian applicants apart in the admissions process
because their background profiles are extremely similar, often as standard pre-med students. Regardless of the official findings in the US, the real numbers speak for themselves - Thomas Espenshade and Alexandra Radford
The 2009 study showed that, on average, the SAT scores required for Asians to get into top schools had to be, well, 140 points higher than those of 140 points higher than white students; 270 points higher than Hispanic students; and 450 points higher than black students.
The triple standard is a clear-cut, non-discriminatory approach.
The triple standard is a clear distinction between the two.
However, there is a sentence in the official statement that stung our hearts, that is - extremely similar.
Presumably that means - yeah, yeah, yeah, you Asian students are awesome, but so what?
They all look the same, no fun!
Similarly good
Are international schools rejecting Asian students because we're not good enough? On the contrary, we are too good.
Not just good, but good in droves. Streamlined excellence, the Olympics.
In the 90s, we had a 10-20% win rate, now it's 50%, and in the Chemistry Olympiad, the Asian win rate is a whopping 90%.
Asian students' GPAs, in general, are higher than those of other ethnic populations, and every single one of them is an academic, and all of them do a little bit of high art.
They've joined orchestras, learned to play piano and tennis, and what else can Asian students not do?
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Similar PS and Resume
The resumes of Asian students that are submitted to the top international schools all have high GPAs.
Superb internships at prestigious companies, and superbly well-rounded personal skills.
But it's important to realize that there are a lot of great people, and very few unique people.
The so-called elite is not the zero defect mediocre excellence, but the millions of people in your most shining.
I don't believe that babies have not had this experience - a search for how to write the paperwork to apply for study abroad?
The answer is similar to nine out of ten, these so-called DIY is not DIY at all. legendary dry goods are divided into strands of standardized answers - what should be written what should not be written. The first thing you need to do is to get your hands dirty.
Millions of different people, using the same formula, so that the written instrument is not similar, it is strange.
While we're memorizing TOEFL books, teenagers in the U.S. are busy preparing for prom, joining clubs, and socializing.
Not only are they more unique, but they're also more active, and Ivy League schools rely heavily on alumni gifts.
To put it bluntly, they love money. In order to have alumni who are successful in all walks of life, they will try to recruit students with better backgrounds, more mobility, and more potential to become successful alumni.
They want socialites
Not college bullies
I wonder if you guys are like Tatsu? The most frightening thing is not the final, nor writing a paper, but the evil of groupwork and presentation, and when it comes to public speaking, the bladder gets in the way, and the words have not yet come out of the mouth. But under the current education system in my country, it is obviously impractical to become a social flower under the authority of the three-year college entrance examination and five-year simulation, but we definitely don't want to be a one-size-fits-all Asian!
Tatsuo's hope from the bottom of his heart - I Asian students, there is the school bully for the laboratory, there is also a wild horse out of the reins, there is the eight-faceted social flower, there is also a frank and spontaneous poets
The only thing that we don't want is in order to cater to some kind of standard, to become the so-called "excellent", whether it is the Ivy League or the University of Hong Kong.
The only thing you don't want to do is to become a so-called "good" person in order to fit a certain standard, whether it's a VC or a state school, it's most important to find the soil that allows you to flourish.
Statistics show that Harvard Asian students' SAT (American Advanced Placement Test) scores are on average 140 points higher than white students. Whether it's objective data, or the subjective feelings of the Chinese community, the quota restriction on Asian students in the top US schools is real. So what exactly is the cause of such discrimination?
University admissions serve the overall goals of the school. What are the strategic goals of America's top schools? Elegant to say, is the visibility, influence, promote the country and even the whole of mankind's innovation and progress; secular to say, is the donation, is their own students in various industries to become a leader. So, the core considerations of enrollment in prestigious schools are two things:
1, how much potential for future success of the student
2, how much potential to give back to the school
People say that tuition at prestigious U.S. colleges and universities is very expensive, and it is indeed very high. However, tuition revenue only covers less than one-eighth of the entire budget. Most of the funding comes from investment income from the endowment. But in terms of endowment, Asian contributions to the endowments that keep America's top schools afloat are far less than the percentage of Asian students in the student body.
That contribution in terms of the reputation that distinguished alumni bring to the school. Check out the membership of the National Academy of Sciences in the three disciplines of mathematics, science, and chemistry, and the percentage of Asian members is only 5%. From a Nobel Prize perspective, there are 889 Nobel Prize winners***. Of these, only seven Chinese Americans have won awards, accounting for 0.79% of the total. In contrast, 114 people of Jewish descent*** have won awards (including Albert Einstein), which is 16 times more than the number of Chinese. The contribution of prominent members of the community to the reputation of their alma mater is much more far-reaching and extensive than that of scholars.
In contrast, Asians, and Chinese in particular, have a dearth of widely influential luminaries in the United States. The one Chinese of truly wide influence is Yao Ming, who played in the NBA but has now returned to China. Next up is Jeremy Lin, who showed the world that Harvard can produce great NBA players, which is what Harvard really wants.
Even so, the overall contribution of Chinese alumni to the reputation of prestigious schools is still very small compared to that of whites and Jews. Even though Asians are smart, hard-working, and high-achieving, they are less likely to donate money and achieve mainstream success in the US than other ethnic groups, and restricting enrollment to Asians becomes a subterfuge under the table.