<p>“Test scores are not everything”</p>
<p>Yes, keep up the racism. Asians are just test-taking math robots who have no creativity and spend all their time preparing for standardized tests.</p>
<p>Clearly this is a subjective area…but I guarantee that whites and Asians have just as many leadership positions, volunteer hours, sports activities, science awards, humanities awards, sports awards…“HOLISTIC” stuff as URM students do. In fact, I’d wager they have more. Someone could make the case that Asians and whites are on average better applicants both considered holistically and through numbers.</p>
<p>So now we’re at this concept of diversity somehow influencing your academic pursuits. I believe it does. However, instead of pursuing intellectual diversity in a straightforward manner (i.e. through the HOLISTIC process), admissions officers pursue intellectual diversity through ethnic/racial/geographical diversity which is neither efficient nor fair. Most of all it’s not accurate. A black kid and a white kid from Iowa could be very similar in intellectual pursuits whereas two black kids from Iowa could be really different and two white kids from Iowa could be really different. If you try and create an intellectually diverse class you will get ethnic/racial/geographical diversity. Doing it the other way around is backwards and can lead to a lot of hostility among the uninformed. Yeah maybe that way you’ll end up with 2 percent fewer Hispanic Americans or whatever. Who cares? “Everyone is qualified” as you said.</p>