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The bad news is that the 2 NY Times reporters who wrote the article did not describe the huge increase in AsAm admits as a result of the eliminationof discrimination against us. Instead, they describe the situation as resulting from the elimination of Affirmative Action (AA), through which the gain of AsAms students comes at the expense of Black & Hispanic students. That is a very serious misrepresention of facts. All AsAms MUST speak up to correct the misrepresentation, when such conversations happen around us!Don't let careless reporters set the Black/Hispanic communities against the AsAm community!
80-20 Took Proactive Action
80-20 wrote those 2 NY Times reporters:
Dear Ms. Hartocollis and Ms. Saul:
Read your article entitled: “At M.I.T., ....”. You suggested that the lawsuit against Harvard & UNC was about "Affirmative Action". That was a gross misrepresentation of facts ! That lawsuit was about discrimination by Harvard against Asian American applicants, as was evident in the title of that case filed with the Boston District Court in 2014. The title was "SFFA alleges Harvard
'discriminates against Asian American applicants in the undergraduate admissions process ….’ “
The SCOTUS adjudicated that such discriminations would not be
allowed. If the SCOTUS decision has implications in AA, so be it. But your article might at least want to remind your readers that the reason for the law suit was discrimination against Asian applicants by Harvard.
Back in 2014, when our lawsuit started, Harvard admitted about 21% Asian American applicants. By 2023, just before SCOTUS announced its decision, Harvard was already admitting 29.9% Asian. Did that significant increase of 9% tell you that Harvard was already admitting its discrimina-tion against Asians? Don't cover up discrimination for Harvard please. You don’t want to encourage discrimination, do you?
Specifically, your article painted a picture of an inevitable conflict of interests between the Black & Asian students. You stated "Black students were given a boost, ..... ,while Asian students were being penalized" and "enrollment decline in Black and Hispanic students and the rise in Asian American students". Do you want to set one minority against another? Are you trying to induce conflict between the Black and Asian American communities?
Are you aware that White students were also given a slight boost* by Harvard and perhaps other Ivy Leagues colleges? Since the white applicants are many times more numerous than the Black &Hispanic applicants and their average score is only slightly below that of Asian applicants, a slight boost to Whites could be the major factor in denying seats to Asian applicants, as the following simulated diagram will illustrate !
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09/03/2024 postreply
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