The Los Angeles Times is running an article describing the challenges faced by Asian Americans as they apply for acceptance to top colleges.
The article describes the impact that their race and ethnicity has on their SAT scores:
Lee's next slide shows three columns of numbers from a Princeton University study that tried to measure how race and ethnicity affect admissions by using SAT scores as a benchmark. It uses the term “bonus” to describe how many extra SAT points an applicant's race is worth.
She points to the first column. African Americans received a “bonus” of 230 points, Lee says.
She points to the second column. “Hispanics received a bonus of 185 points.”
The last column draws gasps. Asian Americans, Lee says, are penalized by 50 points — in other words, they had to do that much better to win admission.
“Do Asians need higher test scores? Is it harder for Asians to get into college? The answer is yes,” Lee says.
A core tenet of the American philosophy, even from before the days of the Founding Fathers, is that through hard work and excellence one should be able to obtain success in life. But is this ideal even possible when certain underachieving groups are given artificial advantages, while those with the most merit are artificially held back?
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 02 2015, @08:48AM
I smell a bell curve coming! "I'm not racist because. . . "
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 02 2015, @09:34AM
Beat that.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 02 2015, @09:45AM
I'm not racist because I don't care.
Beat that.
Don't have to, you defeat yourself, like all racists do. You have my sympathies.
(Score: 3, Touché) by c0lo on Monday March 02 2015, @09:50AM
That's quite original, far on the right of the bell curve.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 5, Insightful) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday March 02 2015, @03:56PM
Racists, by definition, care about race. It is in fact what makes a racist racist. Not caring about race, either helpfully or harmfully, is the only way to ever achieve equality.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by Reziac on Tuesday March 03 2015, @05:52PM
Exactly. Neither helpfully nor harmfully.
As Larry Elder puts it -- do you really think $Minority are so inferior that they need all this extra help??
And there is no Alkibiades to come back and save us from ourselves.