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...plan is not without its flaws. It would link all ethnicities and disciplines under a catch-all heading, "ethnic studies." Lumping together Asian-American literature and Mexican-American history and Native American art fails to recognize the inherent differences among the fields and may prove as effective as expecting the history, fine arts and literature departments to coordinate their efforts...
...years, Asian-American students and professors have charged the University with employing hidden quotas for admission. Harvard has customarily deflected these accusations by citing its efforts to create a diverse student body and by claiming that fewer Asian-Americans fall into the school's most favored admissions groups: varsity athletes and children of alumni...
...statistics that we know are troubling: they imply that Harvard admits proportionally fewer Asian-Americans than all other ethnic groups, even though their applicant pool is more qualified acadmically. On average, only 13.3 percent of Asian-American applicants are admitted to Harvard versus 17 percent for white applicants. And Asian-Americans admitted to Harvard in 1982 and 1983 had SAT scores 50 to 100 points higher than their white counterparts. Even though Asian-American applications this decade have soared, their proportion of Ivy League student bodies in the early 1980's has remained between 10 and 12 percent. What...
Because of different histories in America, each ethnicity carries a different attitude towards the country that prevents unified behavior. While much of the Asian-American community prioritizes education as the key to getting ahead, the Black community--faced for the last century with inadequate schools and opportunities even for the educated--has less faith in the system. To many Blacks, affirmative action is seen as an opportunity to place themselves into the system they've been excluded from, but many Asian-Americans see it as an obstacle to Asians who would qualify by performance alone and a way to limit...
There are approximately 70 Asian orAsian-American students among a total of 121graduate students in statistics at the Universityof Wisconsin at Madison. Among 41 statisticsdoctoral candidates at Stanford University, thereare 14 Asian or Asian-American students. And atYale, which scholars have said is most comparableto Harvard's department, there are seven Asian orAsian-American graduate students among a total of14 full-time students...