DISQUS

8Asians.com: ‘Fat Envelope Frenzy: One Year, Five Promising Students and The Pursuit of the Ivy League Prize’

  • jennifer · 1 year ago
    the UC system has side-stepped the affirmative action issue by admissions based on income levels, which I think is a diplomatic way of admitting students without having to base the decision on race or ethnicity.
  • David · 1 year ago
    Read "The Price of Admission" by Daniel Golden, who is a pulitzer prize winning writer for the WSJ. It basically tells you how the system, which was originally instituted to discriminate against Jews, is now being used to discriminate against Asian-Americans. The parallels are uncanny, with all the same stereotypes used for both sets of minorities ("quiet", "unathletic", "weak", "not leadership material", "all the same", etc.). Are Asian-Americans discriminated against, yes. Top universities will never publicly release statistics so that they can hide behind a wall of secrecy. The discrimination is even worse at top MBA programs - but don't even get me started on that.
  • John · 1 year ago
    David - I am aware of "The Price of Admission" - I just haven't gotten around to buying or borrowing it to read. As for top MBA programs, I went to one... not sure what you are talking about.
  • Ivy Leaguer · 1 year ago
    I know this kid. He's actually a bit of an ass. He plagiarized the essay that got him into Harvard and won him some lofty scholarship. The school found out but he and his mom pleaded their way out.

    Also, there's mad rumors about him cheating on a girlfriend with two other girls.
  • John · 1 year ago
    Ivy Leaguer - while what you say may be true, unless there is solid evidence of his plagiarized essay, I'd rather not have people speculate on this. As for Zhang cheating on his girlfriend - well, that's reality if it is true. Note: I do not know Felix Zhang.
  • Sophia · 1 year ago
    re: MBAs. well John, you may have been the lucky one. someone always gets in. but does the same proportion get in that deserve to get in?

    =)

    You gotta look at the big picture. not just your n of 1.
  • DJKuulA · 1 year ago
    How do you define "deserve" to get in? Top programs like the one John attended accept far fewer applicants than "deserve" to get in based on their academic and personal qualifications.
  • John · 1 year ago
    Well, most college admissions in the United States is subjective, i.e. - not based on a specific criteria of GPA and test scores. So I guess one could argue that "deserve" is also subjective.