<p>@CollegeStress16: Your post is met with wholehearted agreement (and I speak as a non-Asian individual myself so my beliefs are not necessarily colored in favor of the argument). Your indignance is completely warranted. The stereotypes surrounding Asian individuals is extremely narrow-minded and unjustified. Asians, contrary to popular belief, are no less diverse than any other ethnic body. As a group, Asian applicants have the highest scores on objective standards of any ethnic category. They too have encountered racism in our nation yet they do not receive any vestige of AA benefits. Part of my lectures on the “Quadruplets” thread on the Yale board was dedicated to this exact subject.</p>
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<p>This is because discrimination in our nation is typically seen as a one-way process. Thus, our perceptual set is fundamentally biased on a uni-directional basis. When discrimination occurs from the other direction, it is seldomly noticed.</p>