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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, @04:20PM
Water skiing? I think of that as a white trash sport, not upper crust.
(Score: 2) by VLM on Wednesday June 03 2015, @07:20PM
Water skiing? I think of that as a white trash sport, not upper crust.
You're probably thinking more $75K bass boat and $75K truck to haul it parked in front of the $25K mobile home. Or a 200 HP fishing boat towing a skier. Or jet skis. I can't entirely disagree, those are stereotypical "took out the home equity loan" purchases.
A ski boat is more useful when the applicant owns a truly ridiculous one (like banker bonus size, not home equity loan size) and $5M of waterfront property to moor it. Lets say a 45 footer with triple 1500 HP engines, I donno maybe 70 knots top speed for something like that? The kind of thing where the fuel tank is measured in hundreds of gallons? Big enough to be an ocean cruiser if it didn't have giant 4500 HP of engines so its really just for going fast around the coast?
I guess the cruddy SN car analogy would be I'm not talking about the guy with a honda civic having a giant 6 inch exhaust tip and $10K stereo, 4 foot tall spoiler and no other mods at all, but more like a classic 80s Ferrari collection.