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    The end of affirmative action won’t change much for them, some Asian Americans say

    LOS ANGELES — Cecilia Chang bluntly told her two kids: You have to try harder because of who you are. She believed that admission to elite colleges was stacked against Asian Americans — “You’re competing for a very little number of seats with all these qualified Asian kids,” she said. Still, she doesn’t think the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling doing away with affirmation action will change much. ...
    by Jeong Park and Milla Surja, Los Angeles Times Jun 29, 2023 6 minutes
    People with the Asian American Coalition for Education rally outside of the Supreme Court of the United States on Thursday, June 29, 2023, in Washington, D.C. In a 6-3 vote, the court ruled that race-conscious admissions programs at Harvard and the University of North Carolina are unconstitutional, setting precedent for affirmative action at other...

    LOS ANGELES — Cecilia Chang bluntly told her two kids: You have to try harder because of who you are.

    She believed that admission to elite colleges was stacked against Asian Americans — “You’re competing for a very little number of seats with all these qualified Asian kids,” she said.

    Still, she doesn’t think the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling doing away with affirmation action will change much. She supports college officials trying to bring in students from “all walks of life,” and she thinks they will find a way to achieve the racial diversity they’re looking for.

    “It doesn’t mean s--- to us,” said Chang, who runs a disability-related nonprofit and came to the U.S. from South Korea when she was 13. “I don’t think it’s going to tilt in any one way or the other.”

    Chang’s children, who attended public schools in Fullerton and Santa Ana, did well, despite their mother’s warning. Her son is a rising junior at Claremont McKenna studying math. Her daughter, an aspiring lawyer, will attend Williams this fall.

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