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The model minority is losing patience
The Economist ^ | 10/07/2015

Posted on 10/07/2015 2:13:41 PM PDT by MadIsh32

MICHAEL WANG, a young Californian, came second in his class of 1,002 students; his ACT score was 36, the maximum possible; he sang at Barack Obama’s inauguration; he got third place in a national piano contest; he was in the top 150 of a national maths competition; he was in several national debating-competition finals. But when it came to his university application he faced a serious disappointment for the first time in his glittering career. He was rejected by six of the seven Ivy League colleges to which he applied.

“I saw people less qualified than me get better offers,” says Mr Wang. “At first I was just angry. Then I decided to turn that anger to productive use.” He wrote to the universities concerned. “I asked: what more could I have done to get into your college? Was it based on race, or what was it based on?” He got vague responses—or none. So he complained to the Department of Education. Nothing came of it. “The department said they needed a smoking gun.”

In May this year Mr Wang joined a group of 64 Asian-American organisations that made a joint complaint to the Department of Education against Harvard, alleging racial discrimination. That follows a lawsuit filed last year against Harvard and the University of North Carolina by a group of Asian-American students making similar charges. The department rejected the claim in July, but another two complaints have since been filed by Asian-Americans, one against Harvard and one against nine other universities.

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1 posted on 10/07/2015 2:13:41 PM PDT by MadIsh32
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To: MadIsh32

You can’t make an omelet......


2 posted on 10/07/2015 2:17:12 PM PDT by 17th Miss Regt
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To: MadIsh32

If the young man is still a democrat, he should not complain.


3 posted on 10/07/2015 2:17:22 PM PDT by The_Media_never_lie (Let he who pays no taxes also not vote.)
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To: MadIsh32

Affirmative action rewards some, and at the same time, punishes others.

I can understand why affirmative action may have made some sense in 1965, but don’t understand why we still have it. And also don’t understand how affirmative action morphed into quota systems. There has been lots of anecdotal evidence that Asians are discriminated against to make way for less qualified applicants of other ethnicities.


4 posted on 10/07/2015 2:17:53 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: MadIsh32

Oh, this is fun.


5 posted on 10/07/2015 2:18:07 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Affirmative action does not reward ‘some.’ It rewards low performers at the expense of the more qualified.


6 posted on 10/07/2015 2:19:57 PM PDT by Little Ray (How did I end up in this hand basket, and why is it getting so hot?)
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To: Dilbert San Diego
I can understand why affirmative action may have made some sense in 1965 Only to idiots and evil people.

Quotas are quotas, racism is racism, and "affirmative action" has ALWAYS been both.

7 posted on 10/07/2015 2:20:02 PM PDT by NorthMountain ("The time has come", the Walrus said, "to talk of many things")
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To: KC_Lion

Ping.


8 posted on 10/07/2015 2:20:05 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: MadIsh32

Upset that apple cart.
Thanks for posting.


9 posted on 10/07/2015 2:20:17 PM PDT by TroutStalker ("Protect the hypersensitive. Ban everything.")
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To: MadIsh32

“I saw people less qualified than me get better offers,” says Mr Wang.”

Welcome to the real world of designated victim groups. Your mistake was actually excelling in your chosen interest.


10 posted on 10/07/2015 2:21:46 PM PDT by headstamp 2
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To: The_Media_never_lie
If the young man is still a democrat, he should not complain.

He's correct, but not yet Right. He'll get there.

11 posted on 10/07/2015 2:22:10 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

Some CA campuses refuse to comply with California law.

http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/prop209/index


12 posted on 10/07/2015 2:22:52 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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To: MadIsh32

Later


13 posted on 10/07/2015 2:27:58 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: MadIsh32
Michael WANG?

Sorry, you ain't Amish enough to get into an Liberal Socialist Islamo Fascist Homophile American University.

Thanx for the votes, sucker.

14 posted on 10/07/2015 2:29:20 PM PDT by Navy Patriot (America, a Rule of Mob nation)
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To: 17th Miss Regt

.....or kimchee


15 posted on 10/07/2015 2:31:01 PM PDT by ken5050 ("Kevin McCarthy is Eric Cantor with ten less IQ points..." Mark Levin)
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To: MadIsh32
he sang at Barack Obama’s inauguration

It demonstrates he swallowed the "hope and change" rubbish and is highly credulous. I wouldn't accept him either.

16 posted on 10/07/2015 2:33:04 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: MadIsh32

I saw just last week that one of the Ivy League school cleared itself of racism against high-achieving asians.


17 posted on 10/07/2015 2:33:37 PM PDT by Sir Napsalot (Pravda + Useful Idiots = CCCP; JournOList + Useful Idiots = DopeyChangey!)
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To: MadIsh32

Oh he will see how much of a “minority” he is she he starts to get uppity about how the leftist plantation masters aren’t treating him as well as the blacks or gays.


18 posted on 10/07/2015 2:39:23 PM PDT by VanDeKoik
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To: MadIsh32; All
While in no way am I attempting to deny the validity of Wang's charge, there is one other side to the question for which he bears some responsibility, along with his high school. He has NO business applying to all seven Ivy League schools, and his HS guidance counselors are at fault for letting him do so, and supporting his applications.

What did he want to happen? Obviously, he expected to get into all of them..and he deserved to do so, on the merits. Then there's a big story in the local paper, with pictures of all seven letters, and Wang sits back and decides which is the better deal.

Meantime, 6 colleges get there tentative freshman classes screwed up, and more likely, 6 other kids who wanted to really go to either Yale, or Penn, or Dartmouth..didn't get in initially, because Wang took a spot. The Ivies communicate with each other..they know which kids applied to all of them..it's not hard to find out...and so they punished him..and more likely, they'll punish a kid from his HS who applies to one or more of them NEXT year..as a way of making the point to the school's guidance counselors..who should know better.

19 posted on 10/07/2015 2:40:00 PM PDT by ken5050 ("Kevin McCarthy is Eric Cantor with ten less IQ points..." Mark Levin)
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To: MadIsh32

>> he sang at Barack Obama’s inauguration<<

May he end his life working graveyard shift at MacDonald’s: bitter and alone.


20 posted on 10/07/2015 2:41:09 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (The 17th Amendment was the beginning of the end. The end was the 19th ;) Thank God for the 21st!)
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