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But Professor Peter N. Kiang '80 of the University of Massachusetts at Boston, who also spoke at the forum, said that many of the criteria used to evaluate the success of Asian-Americans are misleading. Supposedly objective measures of success, such as median family income, scores on the Scholastic Aptitude...
Based on full consideration, Kiang said, "You would have to conclude that Asian-Americans do not have full equality in American society."
He said that he considered it a "major mistake" that organizations like the Mellon Foundation did not class Asian-Americans as a minority group.
Many Asian-Americans are channeled early on into a narrow range of academic study, Kiang said. He said that 18 percent of the Ph.D.'s earned by Asian-Americans are in the field of engineering, 20 percent are in the physical sciences and 25 percent are in the life sciences...
While saying that Harvard admissions policies have amounted to discrimination against Asian-Americans, Glazer also said the pursuit of "balanced" admissions was a worthy pursuit. Harvard gives preference to athletes and children of alumni in its admissions, factors which it concedes lowered Asian-American admission rates to 80 percent that...