Esther’s academics weren’t “stellar,” Kim said — only a 4.3 GPA, 1520 SAT and nine AP courses. But in her personal statement, she wrote about her mother’s fight with breast cancer. And she was admitted to the University of Pennsylvania.
“That was her trump card. It was a unique situation that she overcame,” Kim said. “To be frank, she got really lucky.”
Fuck sake
The weird thing about it is that college attendance in the USA is actually on the decline, peaking in 2010. The elite colleges are facing more competition than ever, but there is beginning to be a squeeze in some mid-level colleges.
Although, it might be better for the teenagers to aim a little lower and become more well rounded than try to chase the best.
Well yeah, now they don’t have a scapegoat for if they fail.
The dog that caught the car.
Read the article, it works the other way for them.
I did read the article. You tell me how they’re not the dog that caught the car. These reactionary Asian parents got what they wanted and now there will be fewer black kids admitted to top universities, but they’re still driving their own kids to ever higher suicide rates. Paying even more for private tutors. Demanding even more extracurriculars, even more cram schools. Asian-American parents are prisoners-dilemma-ing their children into misery with little to show for it because in their effort to dismantle one of the few policies that was working to reduce the systemic racial education gap in our society, they never once noticed that the systemic racism that also affects them is the same reason their kids still aren’t going to be CEOs or senators.
Asian Americans hated on black americans in order to hop on the white supremacy bandwagon. They were one of the good ones! It has blown up in their faces multiple times, including this instance, yet they continue down the path. Fuck 'em.
Advice to all POC: The white establishment and power structures will never see you as equal. Playing their game ends in your loss, always.
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NRIs and non-Indian desis are casteist pieces of dog shit. They’re not the victims - most of them are from an upper caste background - Sharmas, Vermas, Guptas, Gujjars, you name it. They exploited our lands, left their “beloved” country with a crumbling infrastructure and shove the burden of “preserving kulcha” and play victim card for “discrimination”. What’s frustrating is that they will use imagery of poverty and disease to victimize themselves as self-made, and they also enjoy this “validation” from ignorant white liberals and leftists. I find it laughable when they try to play themselves like the “next Jews” and compare reservation and affirmative action as akin to Holocaust.
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