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Admissions official Lewison Lam' 89 spoke with approximately 30 students at the event, which was sponsored by the political committee of the Asian-American Association...
Responding to a student question about recruitment, Lam said the emphasis for all groups is "on working-class and blue collar families." For Asian-Americans, he said, "part of the effort is to diversify the diversity of Asian-American groups...
...instance, he said, Filipinos are underrepresented proportional to their numbers within the Asian-American community...
...said that the drop in African-American enrollment was due to a decreased yield for Black students rather than fewer admittals. The Asian-American yield this year, 80 percent, was higher than that for Harvard as a whole, and Asian-Americans are strongly represented in the Class of '96, he said...
Furthermore, Mr. Choi makes the error of projecting his personal experience onto the entire Asian-American population. He argues that "heavy family involvement in education" is largely responsible for Asian-American academic success because they spend more time on their homework, on the average. He is again confusing issues, equating hours spent on homework with (Asian) family values and both as an indication of future "success." Again, his acceptance of a "traditional" interpretation of what it means to "deserve" entrance into an elite college. and what being a "good" student entails, underlies his confusion...