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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: 2, Funny) by Ethanol-fueled on Monday March 02 2015, @02:24PM
I didn't post that, but I would like to point out that Asians are good students because they're beat like dogs and excommunicated from the family if they get anything less than straight-A's.
I know, because I lived next door to an Asian family once. They had like 4 generations living in a 1-bedroom apartment and they were all sitting all over the floor on rugs drinking tea all day. And when their kids came home with anything less than straight A's, all you would hear was, "ChingachongabungbangdongtakamakaHAIIIEEEE!" *Crash!* *Bang!*
It sounded a lot like that noise Mortal Kombat's Raiden [xboxachievements.com] makes when he does that flying-through-the-air move.
(Score: 2) by Reziac on Tuesday March 03 2015, @06:01PM
Well, at least Asian parents still have *expectations* of their kids.... it's been pointed out that when we stopped having expectations and started treating 'em as special snowflakes, that's when education started failing our kids.
And there is no Alkibiades to come back and save us from ourselves.