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Re:SAT to Add ‘Adversity Score’ That Rates Students’ Hardships by objektif on Thursday May 16, 2019 @10:02PM (#19935523)
Most Asians I know are very well educated and doing well. I bet they are probably much better off compared to other minorities in the US. When I was doing PhD 90% of my classmates were Chinese. I think it is a bit of a stretch to to say Asians are completely getting screwed in the US.
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Re:SAT to Add ‘Adversity Score’ That Rates Students’ Hardships by siedes on Thursday May 16, 2019 @10:06PM (#19935551)
That's exactly what I mean though, your conclusion that Asians are better off than other minorities just because you saw a bunch of Asians in your elite college (who were most likely foreigners coming to study abroad anyway and not American citizens) is justification the left uses to disregard us lesser Asians in lower economic classes.
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Re:SAT to Add ‘Adversity Score’ That Rates Students’ Hardships by Apocryphon on Thursday May 16, 2019 @10:31PM (#19935705)
Pertinent to TFA, if this adversity score weighs economic factors more heavily than racial ones, then it might actually be more beneficial to Asian Americans than previous affirmative action implementations.
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Re:SAT to Add ‘Adversity Score’ That Rates Students’ Hardships by thereare5lights on Friday May 17, 2019 @01:18AM (#19936542)
I think it's a bit of a stretch to make any sort of conclusion based on your sampling of PhD students.
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Re:SAT to Add ‘Adversity Score’ That Rates Students’ Hardships by objektif on Friday May 17, 2019 @02:48AM (#19936930)
Same goes for every single place I worked at. Asians are by far the most prominent minority group. What should I base my argument on? Your experience? Why dont you counter argue with facts and hard statistics to disprove me?
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Re:SAT to Add ‘Adversity Score’ That Rates Students’ Hardships by thereare5lights on Friday May 17, 2019 @06:04PM (#19944018)
> Why dont you counter argue with facts and hard statistics to disprove me?

I would, but you haven't yet so why should I?

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