{"id":191,"date":"2014-11-24T18:00:21","date_gmt":"2014-11-24T18:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neurecall.com\/blog\/?p=191"},"modified":"2025-05-30T13:46:04","modified_gmt":"2025-05-30T13:46:04","slug":"race-still-a-factor-in-top-us-college-admissions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.syngli.com\/blog\/race-still-a-factor-in-top-us-college-admissions\/","title":{"rendered":"Race still a factor in top US college admissions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In a New York Times <\/em>article<\/a> on race and college admissions, Yascha Mounk exposes both the \u201cracial balancing\u201d at top schools like Harvard that discriminates against Asian-American applicants (as Harvard once discriminated against Jewish applicants), and the myth that \u201cAsian-American applicants do well on tests but lack intangible qualities like originality or leadership\u201d. On the first point, admission to schools like Harvard requires Asian-American applicants to score about 140 points higher on the SAT than white applicants. While about half of applicants to Harvard who scored exceptionally well on the SAT were Asian-American, their fraction of the incoming class is currently only 20%<\/a>. On the second point, the author cites a forthcoming study by Arcidiacono et al. (2014 Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law<\/em>), finding that among over 100,000 undergraduate applicants to UCLA, there was no correlation between race and extracurricular achievements (like community service, leadership and musical ability).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The author concludes that \u201c[t]he truth is not that Asians have fewer distinguishing qualities than whites; it\u2019s that \u2014 because of a longstanding depiction of Asians as featureless or even interchangeable \u2014 they are more likely to be perceived as lacking in individuality.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In a New York Times article on race and college admissions, Yascha Mounk exposes both the \u201cracial balancing\u201d at top schools like Harvard that discriminates against Asian-American applicants (as Harvard once discriminated against Jewish applicants), and the myth that \u201cAsian-American applicants do well on tests but lack intangible qualities like originality or leadership\u201d. 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