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...interest and understanding of Asia among Harvard students (and of the United States among students in Asia),” according to the student organization’s Web site. HCAP works with partner universities across Asia in pursuit of this goal. This year, HCAP worked with six different Asian Universities: the Indian Institute of Technology, the University of Tokyo, the American University in Dubai, the National University of Singapore, Ewha Woman’s University in Seoul, and Hong Kong University. Each February, HCAP hosts a week long conference at Harvard for Asian exchange students. In return, HCAP members...
With female final clubs, the Seneca, pre-professional groups like Women in Business, and ethnic groups like South Asian Women’s Collective, it may seem that Harvard’s women are faced with a dizzying array of options in terms of success-driven sisterhood. Why memorize the words to a Kappa Kappa Gamma (Kappa) song when you could be networking your way to Morgan Stanley through Smart Women Securities? Yet every February about 150 girls—smart, modern, and mostly freshman—begin the process of rushing Harvard’s three sororities. The recruitment...
...UCLA study examined the enrollment of African Americans, Hispanics, Asian Americans, and whites at public institutions of higher education in Texas, Florida, and California. All three of these states all have laws against using race as a factor to determine admissions. The study looked at the years since these states ended affirmative action and found that black, Hispanic and white enrollments have declined, while Asian American enrollment has increased . This shift suggests that Asian Americans compete better when affirmative action does not enter into admission decisions...
...shortcoming of the UCLA study, however, is that it offers no definitive proof that Asian Americans are discriminated against in states that still follow an affirmative action policy. Colleges advocate the importance of applicants’ community involvement, leadership capabiliities, distinction in extracurricular activities, and work experience in their admissions process. To examine the serious charge of racial discrimination, researchers should evaluate the contributions of applicants of different races to these other factors of admission as well...
...disheartening as evidence of admissions discrimination against Asian Americans would be, the pursuit of diversity necessarily requires colleges to make some harsh decisions about whom to accept. The competitive nature of college admissions has intensified in the past decade, with elite colleges accepting less than 10 percent of their applicants. When there are more applicants than there are spots in each incoming class, colleges must discriminate in some fashion to have a talented and diverse student body. Since race remains a factor of diversity, it should be a factor in admission decisions. Harvard’s efforts to reach...