{"id":1760066,"date":"2022-12-02T14:48:25","date_gmt":"2022-12-02T19:48:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1760066"},"modified":"2022-12-02T14:48:28","modified_gmt":"2022-12-02T19:48:28","slug":"systemic-racism-students-downplay-stereotypically-asian-hobbies-to-boost-college-admissions-odds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/systemic-racism-students-downplay-stereotypically-asian-hobbies-to-boost-college-admissions-odds\/","title":{"rendered":"Systemic Racism: Students Downplay Stereotypically Asian Hobbies To Boost College Admissions Odds"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsystemic-racism-students-downplay-stereotypically-asian-hobbies-to-boost-college-admissions-odds%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1760066&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Asian-American college applicants are going to extraordinary lengths to conceal their race, the <em>New York Times<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/12\/02\/us\/asian-american-college-applications.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a> on Friday, stripping their applications of activities and accomplishments that might seem stereotypically Asian.<\/p>\n<p>Students interviewed by the <em>Times <\/em>said they had downplayed their interests in chess, violin, and piano in an effort to avoid being rejected on racial grounds.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is a little sad now that I think about it,&#8221; Marissa Li, a student at Harvard University, told the <em>Times<\/em>. &#8220;I wasn&#8217;t really able to talk about the activities that meant the most to me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Other students said they chose not to declare their race for fear of incurring an admissions penalty, a practice that has been going on for years. In 2004, the test-prep company Princeton Review advised Asian applicants to conceal their racial identity.<\/p>\n<p>It is now routine for college counselors to advise against activities deemed stereotypically Asian. Shin Wei, the founder of IvyMax, said he tells students to pick an instrument other than piano or violin. Sasha Chada, the founder of Ivy Scholars, said he does the same thing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It doesn&#8217;t make me happy to tell ninth graders that there are musical instruments they shouldn&#8217;t play or academic pursuits they shouldn&#8217;t engage in because it&#8217;s going to make them look bad because of their ethnicity,&#8221; Chada told the <em>Times<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The evasions reflect the widely held sense, strengthened in the wake of recent court battles, that affirmative action policies discriminate against Asian students. One 2009 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.apa.org\/pi\/oema\/resources\/ethnicity-health\/asian-american\/article-admission#:~:text=To%20top%20the%20fear%2C%20a,points%20higher%20than%20African%20Americans.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">study<\/a> found that Asians need to score 140 points higher on the SAT than whites\u2014and 450 points higher than blacks\u2014to have equivalent odds of admission. The lawsuit filed by Students for Fair Admissions against Harvard University <a href=\"http:\/\/public.econ.duke.edu\/~psarcidi\/racialpref.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">unearthed similar data<\/a>, which could prompt the Supreme Court to outlaw affirmative action when it decides the case next term.<\/p>\n<p>A major point of contention in that case has been Harvard&#8217;s &#8220;personal rating,&#8221; which admissions officers base on essays, recommendations, and interviews. Asian applicants consistently receive lower personal ratings than applicants of other races, which Students for Fair Admissions argues is a back door for racial discrimination.<\/p>\n<p>The dynamic has drawn comparisons to the Ivy League&#8217;s Jewish quotas in the 1920s, when schools like Harvard were concerned that having too many Jewish students would dilute their brand.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The same stereotypes used to grade down Jewish applicants in the 1920s\u2014that they were nerds or grinds, that they would spend too<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Asian-American college applicants are going to extraordinary lengths to conceal their race, the New York Times reported on Friday, stripping their applications of activities and accomplishments that might seem stereotypically Asian.<br \/>\nThe post Systemic Racism: Students Downplay Stereotypically Asian Hobbies To Boost College Admissions Odds appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":184,"featured_media":173513,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1760066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1760066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/184"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1760066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1760066\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1760066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1760066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1760066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}