Harvard and Princeton being investigated in discrimination claim filed by Asian-American

[Yo_Mama]

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-02-02/harvard-targeted-in-u-s-asian-american-discrimination-probe.html

Statistically there is good evidence that Asian-Americans, on average, have to have higher qualifications to get admitted to elite universities.

The department’s Office for Civil Rights is investigating a complaint it received in August that Harvard rejected an Asian- American candidate for the current freshman class based on race or national origin, a department spokesman said. The agency is looking into a similar August 2011 allegation against Princeton as part of a review begun in 2008 of that school’s handling of Asian-American candidates, said the spokesman, who declined to be identified, citing department policy.

These two complaints were filed over the same applicant.

[Igel]

1. It's inevitable that more will be filed.

Surprising that more haven't been filed.

Some UC schools openly limited (East) Asian-American applicant admissions. They were outpacing admissions of European-Americans and making it tough to have any kind of reasonable affirmative-action. Suddenly Asian-Americans were an overrepresented minority in a system in which pervasive pro-majority racism was the guiding meme, and minority enrollment had to be curtailed in order to ensure minority enrollment. Language becomes difficult. Facial expressions as suchs were said were even more difficult.

"Model minority" became a sort of bad-word touchstone, but it was a touchy touchstone. Rather like expounding on pervasive anti-Semitism in the US even as Jewish Americans were overrepresented in the top tier universities.

[Yo_Mama]

2. Thanks for the perspective

I know very little about what's going on in admissions at universities.

What I gather from the studies is that schools want to maintain their enrollment percentages of historically disadvantaged minorities, so in essence they are discriminating against Asians in favor of whites/ Or to put it another way, the disadvantaged minorities go into a n a separate admissions bucket, and Asians and the majority population are duking it out for the balance of the open slots?

[JI7]

3. i hope they lose, there is benefit in a more diverse school , the problem is the whole "i MUST

get into THIS school" thinking. it's not like the students are going to be rejected from every school and wont be able to go to college.

Spielberg didn't get into USC film school and went to a cal state school instead and he is doing well.