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Obviously, being Indian (a minority) didn't help him in this case.
Asians are an over-represented minority in top tier colleges, med schools, etc. So, no, being Asian would actually work against him given his academic credentials.
First, a 28 ACT is not a relatively high score when applying to an Ivy/Top 20 school. Not even close - so I'm not surprised at all those kids didn't get in.
Yep. Kids with an ACT score of 30 routinely get rejected by even UIUC and UW-Madison.
Affirmative Action is an insult to all Proud Black Americans. It tells all Black Americans, you cannot make it in life, without the whiteman giving you something. You can't build that, forget you didn't build that.
This makes no sense. Affirmative action is for the majority of minority groups, not just AAs. It includes women as well, the largest beneficiaries.
It was put in place to keep White Americans from refusing education to minorities, especially Black Americans. Hell, they didn't even want them to attend the same grade schools because then they would have access to similar resources. But they couldn't surprise their drive.
Whites don't give Black Americans anything. They are just forced to acknowledge the ills of the nation that so many want to desperately forget.
No one can tell Black Americans anything about not making it because they made it through hundreds of years of inhumane treatment in this country, which was nothing more than a cesspool for them. What they have, they more than earned.
Thanks to them, most other minorities have it much better here.
This situation does raise an interesting point though....
Mr. Frat "party animal" from the story didn't have the scores or grades to get into a good med school and when he got a "hand up" he FAILED.
Which brings me back to the STEM thread we had a while back where we pointed out that minorities dropped out of STEM majors at a vastly higher rate and whites dropped out at a much higher rate than asians.
Basically, you cannot *fix* 18 years of educational mediocrity by letting people cut to the head of the line (for hard majors) at the end. Sure, you can if they are majoring in philosophy or human relations or marketing.....but try that in the hard sciences and it's a train-wreck.
It's especially bad when you have REALLY poor performing students getting into so-so schools, struggling because they read at a 4th grade level and then racking up student loans for a while before failing to finish their degree or getting a worthless degree because that's all they were capable of completing.
We need to address education EARLY, not at the end.
Anybody know some kids they went to college with that fell in this category? I can think of a couple....hell....I struggled at times coming from a small town highschool and competing against kids from the Chicago burbs that had vastly better educational access. They were 12-18 months ahead of me when we showed up as freshmen.
Considering the rep points I've gotten on those posts and the people in this thread that said I'm correct, you're the one with the comprehension problem.
Move along.
Considering the rep points I've gotten on my post calling you out, and the comments that said you made a bigoted statement, you're the one with the comprehension problem.
Yeah scream "affirmative action" whenever you don't get your way in life.
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