Commentary: The Asian American admissions handicap
by Ethan Hwang, Los Angeles Times
Oct 08, 2019
4 minutes
Imagine an affirmative action 200-meter dash. If you're African American, you get a five-second head start. If you're white, you take off when you hear the starter pistol. If you're an Asian American high school student, as I am, you have to wait five seconds after the starter pistol before you can go.
This might sound ridiculous, but that's how it sometimes feels, especially in light of the ruling handed down recently in a 2014 case brought against Harvard University by Students for Fair Admissions. The suit alleged that Harvard's admissions policies used race as a predominant factor in evaluating
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