<p>to prpdd’s point re: alumni preference (not to mention athlete preference, etc.), I highly recommend reading a book entitled “The Price of Admission”</p>
<p>I am against Affirmative Action.</p>
<p>I just don’t like how in making things “right” for a few races, they also neglect and make things harder for others. Particularly Asians…and since I am Asian I feel kind of strongly about this.</p>
<p>It’s good and all that they’re trying to even out the playing field for underpriviledged black kids, but Affirmative Action also places a handicap on Asian applicants, which I don’t think is fair. Since schools are so keen on getting x% of this race, and y% of that, it ends up creating limited spots for Asians, so instead of competing with the whole applicant pool, they end up competing with other Asians to see who can get that trivial spot. </p>
<p>And it’s obvious that Asians aren’t “genetically smarter” than everyone else…The culture just puts a huge emphasis and importance on education, which is why they often do so well in school. So why should we be punished just for working hard? It’s not as if Asians haven’t been discriminated in the past. Japanese Internment Camps, anyone? Or the Chinese Exclusion camps resulting from racism against the Chinese which banned them from coming to America for 60 years? They weren’t so nice to Asian immigrants at Angel Island, either. </p>
<p>In the applicant pool, Asians actually have less of an even playing field than even whites.</p>