UC Berkeley vs Stanford Asian Americans

BearFacts
Tue, 04 Dec 2012 03:14:37 +0000

@nosering, thanks for your excellent posts~!

Implementing a holistic admissions process (also called “race-based”, “subjective”, or “selective” college admissions) gives those elite private universities (MIT Caltech included) a powerful tool to manufacture the overall level of racial makeup on campuses. They don’t want their campuses overrun by one specific group – the Asians. Giving blacks and Mexicans a helping hand in college admissions is an excuse. It’s not that whites give up their spots to blacks and Hispanics. Actually Asians give up their spots to whites. This admissions process definitely gives more opportunity to whites. Nobody will ever openly admit it.

They claim that the goal, in a holistic process, is not to admit the best students to their schools, but rather to admit those applicants who will become the best students, by considering subjective things like teacher letters, personal statements, and backgrounds in addition to test scores. The problem is HOW they can possibly pass judgment on the character of each of the thousands of 17 year old kids just reading their statements and letters or interviewing for a few minutes. Come on, they are still maturing and their characters will change. Besides most of good statements are not even… (I don’t want to go any further on this). Objectively it’s almost impossible to rate the quality of applicants’ personalities of still maturing/growing kids. Then again, life is not fair.