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Business Insider reports:
With a perfect ACT score and 13 Advanced Placement courses under his belt, Michael Wang applied to seven Ivy League universities and Stanford in 2013.
As an Asian-American, Wang suspected his race might work against him. But but he was still shocked when he was rejected by Stanford and every Ivy League school except for the University of Pennsylvania.
Wang says he worked incredibly hard and excelled in every area possible. But it still wasn't good enough.
"There was nothing humanly possible I could do," Wang told us, explaining that he felt utterly demoralized after his rejections.
After Wang was rejected from most of the Ivies, he says he filed a complaint with the US Department of Education alleging Yale, Stanford, and Princeton discriminated against him because he was Asian-American.
[...] Wang isn't alone in his belief that the Ivies discriminate against Asians. A coalition of Asian-American groups filed a lawsuit against Harvard University last month alleging the school and other Ivy League institutions use racial quotas to admit students to the detriment of more qualified Asian-American applicants. The more than 60 Asian groups are coming together to fight what they say are unfair admission practices.
[...] He also stressed that he was not just academically driven, but also a well-rounded applicant who maximized his extracurricular activities. He competed in national speech and debate competitions and math competitions. He also plays the piano and performed in the choir that sang at President Barack Obama's 2008 inauguration.
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by GungnirSniper on Wednesday June 03 2015, @04:52AM
At Harvard there are scores of Chinese princelings, whom I assume are paying the full tuition, and thus subsidizing the native students. I don't know if there is some larger geopolitical goal of having students from a budding superpower experience our culture.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 03 2015, @12:26PM
Pointless. It will be beaten out of them once they return home.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 03 2015, @03:59PM
That is incredibly naive on your part. You obviously don't understand that, while they may get the dissident to recant and mouth the propaganda, getting them to believe it in their hearts is another matter entirely.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 03 2015, @05:04PM
There is no need to subsidize anything. I'm more than certain these schools have such huge endowments they do not have to charge tuition.