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Re:Federal Judge Upholds Harvard's Race-Conscious Admissions Process
on Wednesday October 02, 2019 @09:29AM (#21136168)
http://public.econ.duke.edu/~psarcidi/legacyathlete.pdf
See page 45. Asians have a much higher bar and lower probability of getting in after balancing for same academic level. Seems like discrimination to me.
Re:Federal Judge Upholds Harvard's Race-Conscious Admissions Process
on Wednesday October 02, 2019 @09:22AM (#21136105)
Agreed, it is time to stand up for our rights.
Re:Federal Judge Upholds Harvard's Race-Conscious Admissions Process
on Tuesday October 01, 2019 @10:18PM (#21132915)
Sports and drama are fine as long as they aren't the overriding factor. The research on the Harvard statistics show that playing a sport will increase your admission chance from 10% in the top academic bracket to 50%. Sport, legacy (rich), or dean's list (kushner rich).
I would say given the rapid economic growth of Asian countries, the success of Asians around the world, and the need of America to import Asian engineering labor, we have a lot to learn from Asia.
Just look at the 2012 CIA debacle in China. The entire CIA informant network in China was decapitated because China has superior engineers that hacked the CIA communication system. We need to open our eyes and realize that playing silly games have left us weak. We have a weak minded electorate that elects a weak minded president while China is racing ahead with CRISPR and rail guns.
Re:Federal Judge Upholds Harvard's Race-Conscious Admissions Process
on Tuesday October 01, 2019 @05:56PM (#21131155)
We have to consider not about who gets into Harvard. What is more important is the incentive structure that our education system is creating. If our system rewards people who play "victimization" games, that would encourage the next generation to prioritize writing stories that complain about the barriers in their way.
If we had a system that rewarded learning a skill like mathematics, reading, writing, and only focused on these, we would have the next generation devoting more time, money, and energy to obtaining mastery over these. You can look at China, where families and students spend thousands of dollars on tutors, and some tutors are millionaires. Encouraging investment and dedication to learning is a good thing. True, you might take it too far, but it is far better to have an educated population that can think for itself.
The SAT should transition to something like the National Exam in other countries. Offered only once a year, entirely free, very rigorous, and encompassing all subjects. This will provide both the carrot and the stick for the next generation to apply themselves to education. We need a culture that loves education and learning, not just sports and drama.
Re:Federal Judge Upholds Harvard's Race-Conscious Admissions Process
on Tuesday October 01, 2019 @05:19PM (#21130804)
So... whites steal from black bucket, so that makes it ok for the black bucket to steal from the Asian bucket?
Re:Federal Judge Upholds Harvard's Race-Conscious Admissions Process
on Tuesday October 01, 2019 @05:09PM (#21130686)
I propose creating a school that only looks at quantitative measures, gives a single test once a year that is grueling in mathematics, science, logic, reading, and writing. They just pick the top x-percentile of students. If there is a tie, students are picked randomly. We can call it the HackerNews Academy.
Re:Federal Judge Upholds Harvard's Race-Conscious Admissions Process
on Tuesday October 01, 2019 @05:04PM (#21130633)
Why not both?
Re:Federal Judge Upholds Harvard's Race-Conscious Admissions Process
on Tuesday October 01, 2019 @05:02PM (#21130607)
Stuyvesant used to have 13% African American students in the 1970s, matching the overall population. The test system didn't change, but the African American demographics in Stuyvesant dropped to 1%. Does this mean that the impacts of discrimination increased over time?