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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.
Original Submission
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 03 2015, @07:33AM
Exactly "who" do we all know "goes into teaching"?
Those who can't, teach. (And those who can't teach, recruit.)
(Score: 3, Funny) by aristarchus on Wednesday June 03 2015, @08:46AM
Exactly "who" do we all know "goes into teaching"?
Those who can't, teach. (And those who can't teach, recruit.)
Lets get this right, shall we? There will be an exam at the end of the thread, and your future life depends on your score vis–à–vis that of all the other Soylentils:
Those who can do, do. (fair enough, be ability to do does not entail understanding of what one is doing.)
Those who cannot, teach. (not fair, because what teachers do is teach, so they have know that, and what it is they are teaching.)
Those who cannot teach, administrate. (we actually pay these poor bastards higher salary, to soften the blow of admitting incompetence.)
Those who cannot administrate, run for elected office. (yes, meet the bottom of the barrel.)
And those who cannot get elected, became education reformers! (hey, did you see Michele Rhee's hubby is now the mayor of somewhere!)
At least the poor successful college student doesn't have to say, "You don't understand! I coulda had class. I coulda been a contender. I coulda been somebody instead of a bum, which is what I am."
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 03 2015, @01:58PM
Thats just crap from conceited assholes trying to make themselves feel better because they're too dumb and incompetent to teach. The non-failures at life both do and teach.
(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Wednesday June 03 2015, @04:30PM
The difference being teacher vs. teacher I suppose. You can teach without it being your job.
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"