Do Asian American applicants hoping to earn admission to our nation’s elite universities face discrimination based on their race? Our answer is a qualified yes. Asian Americans do face discrimination in highly selective college admissions — that’s without question. But they don’t face discrimination based on their race alone. Rather, they …
In the suit making headlines around the world in which Harvard University is accused of discriminating against Asian American applicants, the school has barked back. In a Friday court filing, the university deemed a prior analysis of six years worth of its admission data as “fundamentally unreliable” because, they argue, …
As the United States Department of Justice prepares to mount a legal challenge to Affirmative Action on the basis that the practice discriminates against Asian American applicants, it seems an opportune time to articulate just how Asian Americans are discriminated against in college admissions — through the lens of social …
White privilege and Asian American discrimination in admissions. We trust we’ve grabbed your attention. As the United States Department of Justice prepares to mount a legal challenge to the practice of Affirmative Action on the basis that it fosters Asian American discrimination in admissions, we figured we’d share with our …
Bev Taylor, Founder of Ivy Coach, published a piece yesterday up on “The Huffington Post” that focuses on how the strategy that Asian American organizations are employing to go about trying to end the discrimination that Asian American applicants face in highly selective college admissions is not the correct strategy. …
File this one under senseless. Today, a group known as the “Asian American Coalition for Education” put out a press release to put it out there that on May 23rd, the leaders of over 100 Asian American organizations will hold a press conference to announce to the public that civil rights …
There’s a piece up on “Business Insider” by Abby Jackson entitled “Ex-Ivy League admissions officer reveals why it’s sometimes tougher for Asian kids to get in” that follows on the heels of a spring in which just about every article on highly selective college admissions focused on the discrimination that …
If you’re a regular reader of our college admissions blog, you know that we have long firmly asserted that Asians and Asian Americans face discrimination in the highly selective college admissions process. It’s unfortunate. But that doesn’t mean it’s not the case. Because it is the case. And it has …
There was recently a letter to the editor on the topic of Asian and Asian American applicants to college in “The Los Angeles Times” by Geralyn Yparraguirre that we figured we’d discuss. In the letter, Ms. Yparraguirre, who states that she previously worked in admissions at UC Berkeley, states, “I can …
There is an article on “Bloomberg” entitled “Are Ivy League Schools Biased Against Asians?” written by Matthew C. Klein that we wanted to take the time to respond to. If you’re a regular reader of our college admissions blog, you know that our answer to this question posed in the …
