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...dispute surrounding Asian-American admissions has also been characterized by mistrust and a lack of communication. The admissions office and its accusers have bandied statistics back and forth without adequately explaining and discussing such basic issues as the priorities of the admissions committee...
...understand ourselves as Asian-Americans, we must understand how we interact with other groups," says David Chiu '91, co-conference chair of the Asian-American Association (AAA) conference. This idea established the theme of interplay '89, the AAA conference...
Throughout the ongoing disputes over self-identification of minority groups--whether Black or African-American, American Indian or Native American, Asian or Asian-American, Mexican-American or Chicano--runs a common thread of the problem of cultural or ethnic identity...
They cite as evidence recent Harvard admissions data, which shows that Asian-Americans are admitted at only 80 percent the rate of admission for white applicants. In addition, critics say that in 1982 and 1984, while the number of admitted Asian-American students did not increase, the number of applicants increased substantially...
Wang also says that although SAT scores for Asian-American and white applicants are about the same, scores for admitted Asian-Americans are between 40 to 60 points higher than those of admitted whites...