While the the Presidency was the main focus of voters throughout the United States, two affirmative action issues on the ballot in Colorado and Nebraska seemed to have significant importance for Asian-Americans. The According to Asian American Politics, affirmative action policies implemented by colleges and universities actually result in reverse discrimination against Asian students.
In support of its position, Asian American Politics cites several studies including
"Is There An Asian Ceiling?" By Russell Nieli
Several years ago a Korean-American student in one of my politics classes at Princeton described the reaction of his Asian classmates in the California private school he attended when the college acceptance and rejection letters arrived in the mail the spring of their senior year. A female Black student, he explained, had applied to more than half a dozen of the most prestigious colleges and universities in the nation and got accepted to all of them, deciding eventually to enroll at Stanford.
This Korean student's story was in the back of my mind as I read the newspaper accounts about the racial discrimination complaint lodged not long ago with the Department of Education against Princeton University by Jian Li, the Chinese-American student at Yale who had a perfect 2400 (i.e. three 800s) on the newer version of the SAT.
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Though this might be true, I believe that there are other factors that must be taken into account. Like one factor that has to be taken into account is that usually selective Universities have special programs for black students to increase their acceptance into their University, due to the fact that such a low number apply. So it's hardly that someone is competing against these black students. Already a set number is set up on who will be allowed into the program.
It is funny that one did not discuss that those who apply to selective universities may have around perfect SAT scores and super high GPA's, and so the Asian who was denied is not seen as a special case. He was denied just like everyone else. Look at the numbers and say that there may be just racism against Asians in general and may not be because of Affirmative action at all. Cause in the end, in Ivy league schools, there is less than 1 percent minorities on the campus anyway.
Thanx for the response Loni. I'll try to find more research material on this subject.
Paul Fuentes
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