The less you expect the less you are going to get...
The more you expect the more you are going to get...
Why liberals can’t seem to fathom these simple “FACTS OF LIFE” and they are bonafide FACTS shows that very little was ever expected from them....
There was a missing “not” in my comment.
My son tried applying to colleges with his race checked off as Hispanic, perfectly acceptable since his mother is from Peru. We didn’t see any benefit at all. Perhaps it’s a combination of race and income that really gets the benefit.
Exactly.
And that policy should be retroactive 100 years and impose fines on all public universities that used race as a basis for admissions between 1910 and 1965.
310 points is a lot of points! That’s the effective SAT boost that black applicants get over whites.
There’s more—Asians are at a 140 point DISadvantage to whites. So, adding it up, Blacks get a 450 point SAT boost over Asians. And, this is while the SC has said that racial preferences are illegal.
As Orwell said, some animals are more equal than others.
I’m so glad BHO is the post-racial President. I’m turning blue holding my breath while I wait for him to fix this clear inequality.
Most institutions of “higher,” Oops, I meant “liberal” learning are socialist when it comes to ideology (but not salary). George Orwell had already recognized that socialist ideologies mean “some are more equal than others.”
I’ll just tell all my white sons, “You’ve gotta work twice as hard and be twice as smart to get half as far. It’s your skin color. They can’t overlook it. It’s your burden to bear in this unfair world.”
Those 130 points turn a Latina into a wise Latina apparently.
Diversity is nothing but Anti-White Racism....and I guess in the case of education...Anti-Asian Racism
I would be curious to find out if people with Jewish surnames are treated like Asians.
Mrs. Jewbacca applied to several graduate programs of equivalent selectivity.
Her maiden name is decidedly “Jewish.” My sur-name is rather amazingly generic French.
Mid-application process we married.
She was rejected to all (a sample of 3) where she used he maiden name and accepted to all (a sample of 4) where she used her married name.
All comprable schools; filled out within three weeks of another.
Coincidence, perhaps. But we always wondered.
It is also interesting to look at the home life these kids come from. Typically, in Asian homes, discipline for poor grades comes if the kid gets less than an “A.” In white homes, the acceptable grade is a “B.” In black homes, it is a “C.”
As one poster stated, it’s about expectations. And it all starts at home.
That is pretty vague. What kind of Blacks are we talking about here? Light skinned or dark skinned? With Negro accents or without? Would Obama get 155 point advantage because he is only 50% Black? What about an African American Albino?
The government needs to pinpoint these inconsistancies.
/sarchasim
They pay for it in sublte ways...
A black guy I knew went to a black doctor. He was pretty sick, but this black doctor was like a supermarket butcher...
Must have gotten into med school under affirmative action. Not sure if he knew an eye from an ear.
One thing this should tell people is the following:
When selecting a doctor to cut you open for surgery, your preference should be the following (assuming no other data, like referrals, is available):
1) Asian
2) White
3) Hispanic
4) Black
Of course it’s possible that that a particular black surgeon could run circles around a peer group of whites and Asians - but it is not probable. And you sure as heck know that neither the Asians nor the Whites got ANY help in getting through medical school...instead they EARNED their licenses.
And this is a major factor when I select a doctor. My first choice is Jewish (Archie Bunker taught me that when he looked for a lawyer), then Asian (including Indian), then White.
As more people figure stuff like this out, more people will make choices based on the similar criteria to myself...something that the Democrats well understand and, to me, a big reason why they want to take over health care (i.e., so that their friends who snagged medical licenses can get some work - once choice of doctors is gone).
Sorry if I offend anyone, but it was not my idea to NOT have a colorblind society.
ah, once again , Affirmative action and political correctness rears its ugly head to support America’s demise. So hard work and excellence takes a back seat to skin color, all for the sake of “diversity”. Now take a look at nations such as China, Japan, South Korea and Singapore. They would skoff at such preferences, instead their cultures are based on rewarding excellence, and only the best of the best get into the best universities and get the highest paying jobs.
They reward excellence. We strive for mediocrity, but all for diversity! who do you suppose will succeed best in the long run in technological advances and the world economy? How is America going to compete with our goal of mediocrity?
Depressing.
... if officials stopped considering race, they predict, minority enrollment would decline precipitously. If NSCE private schools eliminated both the black/Hispanic advantage and the Asian disadvantage, blacks would go from 8 to 3 percent of these colleges’ admittances, Hispanics from 8 to 5 percent, whites from 60 to 53 percent, and Asians from 24 to 39 percent.Pretty amazing, if true.
If I were Asian I'd be pissed. Hmmm, I smell an opening in this reverse discrimination scenario...
Reverse Institutional Discrimination