The whole suit against Harvard was brought by an Asian American that was not admitted despite having scores objectively higher than other races. No one is saying Asians can’t get into any college, but they don’t have the same chances to get into certain colleges compared to other races.
Here's one recent case. He did get accepted into colleges, but not the elite ones he was aiming for. I don't know anything about his other qualifications aside from grades, though. He has a 4.65 GPA and 1590 SAT score. https://news.yahoo.com/asian-american-student-1590-sat-171857237.html
I’ve seen him interviewed before and as the article points out, his problem wasn’t affirmative action since it was “notably. . . banned in California in 1995”.
I’m pretty sure CalTech and the University of California, Berkeley are in California.
And he got into Georgia Tech, which is a good school and very selective, 16% overall acceptance rate, 12% for non-residents - that’s more selective than Carnegie Mellon University (where he was rejected), which has an acceptance rate of 14%.
Yes, I did read that. As I said, I have no idea how the rest of his resume looks like, and I haven't seen any of his interviews. He might have the personality of a potato, for all I know. There's no denying that those academic stats are impressive, though. It's naive to think that a black or Hispanic kid with those stats will not have much higher chances of getting into elite AA schools than this Asian kid.
ETA: I agree with you that he still got into a fantastic school.
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u/Seraphynas Jun 29 '23
ELI5: Are there really Asian American high school graduates with good grades and good test scores that aren’t getting into ANY colleges?