[Paleopsych] Model Minority: Asian Ivies
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An Open Email to the Asian American Community
January 14, 2003
Asian Americans have come to this country in great numbers for the
last 30 years. Over time, they gradually realized that they were
enjoying every benefit from the establishment of the Americans great
founding father as well as benefits resulting from Martin Luther Kings
legendary civil rights work and the continuous efforts of the NAACP
and the American Civil Liberties Union. As the years passed by, most
of them became settled in this new country and they and their children
became Asian Americans. Collectively these Asian Americans have become
a new racial group, regardless of where they came from and whether
they like it or not. Eventually, they all have found their place in
the society that they now call home.
Most Asian Americans, other than refugees, are the cream of the crop
from their motherlands. Some have immigrated to the US because of
their wealth and others due to their excellent educations. Those from
China are within the top 0.1 percent of the Chinese population in
terms of education. These newest citizens and immigrants to America
have built their new life on the core value of education. Many state
universities have benefited from the determination of the Asian
Americans search for higher education. California has benefited the
most as Asian Americans academic superiority has propelled its state
flagship university, Berkeley, to the top spot of American public
universities and the private Stanford University into the top ten
universities as ranked by US News. Asian Americans constitute about
45% of Berkeleys student body--even with a higher admission
requirement imposed on them. The average SAT score for the admitted
Asian Americans at Berkeley is approximately 100 points higher than
that of white Americans and is two to three hundreds points higher
than that of Hispanic and African-Americans. Five California public
universities, Berkeley, UCLA, San Diego, Irvine and Davis, are ranked
in the top 20 public universities as a result of Asian American
majorities in these schools.
A great number of Asian Americans went to Berkeley and, following in
their parents footsteps, became engineers. It is perfectly fine for
those less competitive students if they do not attend a name brand
college. Many Asian Americans have come to realize that American
society is dominated and controlled by non-engineers. Seeking a good
and comfortable life as an engineer no long meets the goal and desire
for identity of many. In the last twenty years, there have been many
Asian Americans who have become successful in the public eye,
including An Wang, Charles B. Wang, Jerry Yang, Bill Lann Lee,
Margaret Cho, Lucy Liu, Yo-Yo Ma, Kristi Yamaguchi, Michelle Kwan,
Michael Chang, Helen Zia, and Hoyt H. Zia, to name a few. Now Asian
American broadcast news anchors are everywhere, especially female ones
like Connie Chung. Asian Americans now have their first Governor, Gary
Lock of Washington State, state representatives, David Wu and Mike
Honda, Labor Secretary Elaine L. Chao and Transportation Secretary
Norman Y. Mineta. Asian Americans have occasional bright spots on TV,
such as George Takei playing Mr. Sulu in the original Star Trek
series, Bruce Lee as Kato in The Green Hornet, and the films of Jacky
Chan and John Wu. However, many Asian Americans still have been unable
to dispel the enduring media image of Asian Americans as Hop Sing, the
Cartwrights houseboy on Bonanza. The media still does not provide
Asian Americans with heroes or role models that Asian Americans
actually could dream of becoming.
Other than athletes and entertainers, Asian Americans have seen the
success and leadership of Asian Americans who have graduated from
highly selective colleges. They learned quickly that there really is
no difference between the United States and their native lands; the
combination of a good education and connections with those in power is
the road to power and success. Asian Americans have come to recognize
that Harvard and the Ivy League have been the major access roads to
power in America for white Americans and African-Americans alike.
Despite many articles questioning the value of an Ivy League school
education, Asian Americans are now competing for spots at Ivy League
schools in great numbers.
Ivy League Educations
(an excerpt from the Chicago Sun-Times)
The Ivy League Schools provide leadership training and a peer learning
environment through a four-year residential college / liberal arts
education. The eight Ivy League Schools are Brown, Columbia, Cornell,
Dartmouth, Harvard, Princeton, Yale and U Penn. In addition, there are
little Ivies such as Amherst, Williams, Swarthmore, Middlebury,
Wesleyan, Haverford, and Wellesley. Highly selective schools also
include quasi-Ivy schools, such as MIT, Caltech, Stanford, Chicago,
Duke, Northwestern, WASH U (Washington University in St. Louis),
Georgetown, Rice, John Hopkins, and Tufts, which do not provide a
comparable residential college experience.
Top public universities such as Berkeley, Virginia, Illinois,
Wisconsin, Michigan, and North Carolina provide a solid academic
education in specific fields compared to a diverse liberal arts
education at elite schools. Many learned that to attend these public
schools is as expansive as attending Ivy schools by out-of-state
students. For non-residents, the cost of the freshman year at these
public universities can reach over $29,000 and the cost at elite
schools is approximately $36,000 per year. However, it will cost more
to attend Berkeley for the remaining years for non-California
residents. The Berkeley dorms can only accommodate students for their
freshman year. The annual rents for an off-campus apartment easily can
cost another $10,000 a year. Many high school graduates quickly
learned from their peers that those admitted to the elite schools are
actually paying less than those attending out-of-state public
universities or even local state universities due to the generous
financial aid and grants offered by the elite schools.
Many argue that the halo of attending an elite school may be losing
its glow, in part, because increasing numbers of people go on to
graduate or professional schools. A master's degree, law degree, or
medical degree from a prestigious school can overshadow a bachelor's
degree, especially because it's often more relevant to a person's
career.
Of course, getting into a top-tier graduate or professional school is
a challenge all its own, although statistically, a bachelor's degree
from an Ivy League institution confers a certain advantage in that
competition. Admission officers warn against choosing an elite college
for that reason; "We don't assign it an automatic weight in the way
people assume we do," said Jean Webb, the director of admissions at
Yale Law School. However, Webb and other graduate-level admissions
officers acknowledge that applicants from less respected institutions
need much higher grades to compete against those who studied at elite
colleges.
If a student wants to become an MD or lawyer with specialties,
graduating from a top medical or law school is almost a requirement to
open the door. One would have a better chance of being admitted to a
top medical or law school by attending an undergraduate college at Ivy
or little Ivy schools. Berkeley is the number one public university
and its statistics for matriculation to medical/law schools (as
reported by Berkeley) are outstanding, as many who graduate from other
public universities cannot even get an admission from a medical or law
school. However, it is extremely difficult for Berkeley graduates to
be admitted to a top 10-ranked medical or law school, or even a top
twenty-ranked. In the year 2001, there were 87 Berkeley graduates who
applied to the medical school at John Hopkins University, none were
admitted. Harvard Law School matriculated 550 first-year law students
in the year 2001; 62 Berkeley graduates applied and resulted in two
matriculations. These statistics can be examined on the following web
pages. Due to multiple applications, one should only read the
matriculation column.
[1]UC Berkeley graduate Medical School Matriculation Statistics
[2]UC Berkeley graduate Law School Matriculation Statistics
"But there's more to it than that, it's the overall record. It's the
type of courses. It's so subjective, said Patricia Tobiasen, the
admissions coordinator for Columbia University's medical school.
Corporate recruiters may be more impressed than graduate schools with
Ivy League credentials. When the top investment and consulting firms
visit campuses in search of young employees, they go first to the
Ivies, said Sheila Curran, the director of career services at Brown
University.
After landing that first job, Curran said, the Ivy League advantage
continues in the form of connections. "Even though the old boy network
isn't quite as prevalent as it was before, the ability to get into
contact with people who have high-level jobs -- and who can network
you into getting an interview -- is something that may be more
prevalent at the Ivies than at some of these other places," she said.
Cynthia B. Lin plans to use those connections. A 1995 graduate of
Northern Valley Regional High School at Demarest, she turned down a
full scholarship to Boston University -- worth about $100,000 -- to
attend Princeton. "I think it pays off a hundred-fold in the end,"
said Lin, now a software engineer in suburban Washington, D.C. "If I
go to parties or receptions and I meet Princeton people, of course
they're very receptive to helping me out, or giving me their card and
trying to stay in touch, because Princeton people can rely on other
Princeton people to be interested or good employees." However, Lin
said she wasn't thinking of her career when she chose Princeton in the
spring of 1995. In fact, she originally intended to accept Boston
University's generous offer. Then she got a glimpse of Princeton's
tantalizing mix of overachievers, and a decade's worth of debt seemed
a small sacrifice. "It mattered more to me the quality of the
education I would get and how comfortable I felt in the environment I
was in," Lin said. "If I felt that Joe College's environment was even
closer to what I was looking for, then I would have chosen that."
Krueger, the economics professor at Lin's alma mater, endorses that
reasoning. Despite his doubts about the financial payoff of a
prestigious degree, he believes there are legitimate reasons for going
to a selective school such as Princeton. But a high salary, he said,
isn't one of them. "Students need to find the right match," he said.
"The world is more complicated than just saying, 'The most selective
school is the best for every student.' I think a student and his or
her family has to look into what the college offers, what the
student's interests are, and how those are aligned."
Asian Youngsters Work Much Harder to Get Into Ivy Schools
Asian Americans have the lowest Ivy School admission rate among all
applicants. At Ivy Schools, the selectivity is at 1 to 10 on average.
Asian Americans admission rate to an Ivy School is from 1 to 15 and
down to 1 to 25 Asian Americans applied. Asian Americans represent 31%
of the total applicants to U PENN and yet only 23% of the matriculated
Class of 2005. The numbers are the same for the Class of 2004. Asian
Americans are accepted at two-thirds rate when compared to the entire
applicant pool's acceptance rate, despite being the most qualified
group. Asian Americans must meet higher objective standards such as
SAT scores and GPAs, and to meet higher subjective or "holistic"
standards such as motivation, overcoming adversities from poverty,
prejudice, linguistic and cultural differences from being a racial
minority, extracurricular, and character than the rest of the
matriculated entering class at Penn. This is due to the upper-limit
quota or cap imposed on Asian Americans restricting their numbers at
Penn. If not for this imposed quota, their numbers would be much
higher at Penn and they would be accepted, at the very least, at the
same rate as the rest of the applicants. Yet Penn still has the
highest percentage (23%) of Asian Americans of all the Ivy League
schools, which average about 14% Asian Americans, in its entering
classes. The percentage of White-Jewish students is at 35% at Penn and
there is no quota imposed on them.
The upper-limit quotas that existed in the Ivies for Jewish-Americans
before WW II have been abolished. Now, they exist at Penn and the rest
of the Ivy League schools for Asian Americans. Asian Americans have
taken the place of the American Jews in this respect. American Jews
represent 2.5% and Asian Americans represent 4% of the American
population.
Excellence is being sacrificed for the sake of racial diversity with
the exclusionary upper-limit quotas or caps on the numbers of Asian
Americans at Penn and the Ivy League schools.
Another common complaint is that the deck is stacked socially against
Asian males in a system designed to preserve the princely status quo
of the scions of WASP families. The Ivies admit a disproportionate
number of attractive Asian American females, some have observed, while
far fewer attractive Asian American males are admitted. This subtle
bias, critics suspect, is implemented in the screening interviews used
by most Ivy League schools.
Desire to Attend an Ivy School is Shared By All Races
(Excerpt from an article [3]Where are the Baptists at Harvard? by
Jonathan Tilove)
While Ivy League schools have made their mark around the rallying cry
of diversity, their own enrollment reflects a lack of diversity. In
short, students at schools like Harvard are far more likely to be
Jewish or Asian than to be Southern Baptists, conservative evangelical
Christians or Italian-Americans. Right now at Harvard, America's most
elite school, an estimated 20 percent of undergraduate students are
Jewish, and almost the same percentage is Asian. Although Jews and
Asians together account for only 5 percent of the United States
population, they make up nearly 40 percent of Harvard's enrollment.
That's about the same percentage of Harvard students who are
non-Jewish whites, a group that makes up more than 70 percent of the
U.S. population. Christian whites are far more under-represented at
Harvard, relative to their numbers in the general population, than
even blacks and Hispanics. In rough terms, the combined Jewish and
Asian representation in Dartmouth's student body is about 18 percent;
at Princeton, about 25 percent; at Duke, Cornell and Brown, somewhere
in the 30 percent range; at Yale, about 45 percent; and at Columbia
and the University of Pennsylvania, about half. In each case,
non-Jewish whites are equally under-represented at the other end of
the spectrum.
Not all white Christians are underrepresented in the Ivy League. The
old white elite--Episcopalians, for example--are bearing up well,
abetted a bit by the admissions preference for children of alumni.
Moreover, it appears that groups like Italian-Americans and Southern
Baptists do not fare so well. "True diversity would look entirely
different than it does today," said Brian Burt, who graduated from
Harvard Law School last spring after three years as a lonely Christian
conservative activist. This hasn't escaped the notice of conservatives
like commentator Patrick Buchanan, who wrote in a January column:
"Let's make the Ivy Leagues look more like America."
The stakes are high because Ivy League schools are the gateway to
America's power elite. How these schools define diversity will help
determine the diversity of those elite. Bill Clinton, a poor Baptist
boy from Hope, Ark., became president, but only after having his
ticket punched at Georgetown, Yale and Oxford.
Likewise, there is nothing diverse in the law school backgrounds of
the nine justices of the Supreme Court--five Harvard, two Stanford, a
Yale and a Northwestern. Yet Harvard's admissions director, Marlyn
McGrath Lewis, says she has little patience with complaints about
representation. "Whatever you are, you feel there are not enough of
you," she said. "The Italians are after us. I'm sure the Irish may be
too. I'm one. The evangelicals are not ones I think have a bone to
pick. They are a growth industry in the country, and that's reflected
in what's happening here. But more than that, she said, it is a
"foolish notion" even to look at the question of college
admissions--and the ambition to assemble a class of diverse
backgrounds, intellects and talents--through the prism of group
representation.
The constitutional limits placed on college admissions decisions were
outlined in the Supreme Court's 1978 Bakke decision. The court agreed
that race could be a "plus factor" in admissions decisions, as far as
it contributes to the school's diversity. But, as Justice Lewis Powell
wrote then, "The file of a particular black applicant may be examined
for his potential contribution to diversity without the factor of race
being decisive when compared, for example, with that of an applicant
identified as an Italian-American if the latter is thought to exhibit
qualities more likely to promote beneficial educational pluralism."
According to a UCLA survey of elite schools, the more selective the
school, the more affluent the students are and the more liberal they
are. They also tend to be less religious and decidedly less likely to
be "born-again" Christians. In other words, if diversity is what these
schools want, they ought to be searching out more Christian
conservatives.
To Queens College sociologist Stephen Steinberg, this is the bind that
many defenders of affirmative action find themselves in for resting
their case on diversity rather than what he considers the more
compelling moral logic of reparations for the history of slavery, Jim
Crow and continued discrimination. "As soon as you take this argument
outside history, you lose. Only history provides the logic and
justification for breaking the ordinary rules of admission and
access," said Steinberg, the author of "Turning Back: The Retreat from
Racial Justice in American Thought and Policy." The diversity argument
may have seemed more politically and legally palatable but it is
ill-prepared to defend itself against the advances of newly
"underrepresented" groups staking their own claims to diversity's
mantle, he said. "The whole thing begins to look like pork barrel."
Kamil Redmond, a Harvard junior from Philadelphia who was just elected
vice president of the undergraduate council, says she recoils when she
hears conservatives on campus describe themselves as Harvard's true
minority. As a black woman at Harvard, "I find that so disturbing. The
appropriation of the term 'minority' is so powerful." Groups like
Christian conservatives are only playing at a victimhood they have not
earned, she said.
Part of the problem may be reluctance among Southern Baptists,
Christian conservatives and Italian-Americans to go far from home for
college. Olivia Hunt, a junior from San Antonio who heads the Baptist
Campus Ministry at Harvard, said only four of the 600 students in her
graduating class from Winston Churchill High School went to Ivy League
schools, and few others left Texas. Most folks back home don't
understand why her family would want to spend all that money when she
could get a good education for less and never have to leave Texas, she
said.
Over-representation is not new in the Ivy League, of course. For most
of Harvard's history, the over-represented were white, male and
Protestant. In 1870, Harvard's student body included seven Roman
Catholics, three Jews and no blacks. But now, the combined Jewish and
Asian presence on Ivy League campuses has become "just too big to
ignore," according to Arthur Hu, a Kirkland, Wash., software engineer
and writer who has become a sort of Internet pamphleteer on issues of
diversity and representation. "This huge sleeping monster, the
Christian right, is the most underrepresented group and they don't
know it," he said. But, Hu added, it is now only a matter of time
until the least represented begins sounding the mantra of diversity.
Learning It from American Jews and Those in Power
(From [4]Arthur Hu and [5]The American Cause)
Jews were 21 percent of the Ivy League vs. 1.5 percent of the
college-age population (14 times overrepresentation) and the figure is
higher at the graduate level (at Yale, for example, 60 percent of
graduate students are Jewish - an astonishing figure). Asians are
about 16 percent (4 times overrepresentation) and let's double that
for Chinese and maybe Indians as well. (1999 Princeton Review Best 331
Colleges and the Hillel Guide to Jewish Life on Campus.)
More than a tenth of college professors are Jewish, and that figure
rises to about 30 percent at elite schools. According to Alan
Dershowitz in his book, The Vanishing American Jew, 76 percent of the
200 most influential intellectuals are of Jewish background.
About 40 percent of the lawyers at the most prestigious New York and
Washington law firms are Jewish. In addition, 23 percent of the 500
wealthiest Americans are Jewish and about 85 percent of college-age
Jews are in college (this is from Seymour Martin Lipset, a highly
respected, but ridiculously centrist and un-innovative, sociologist).
George W. Bush opposes "quotas," even though it was fine for him to
get into Yale with a C average, so that "rich quota" was fine and it
works for his daughter. Bill Clinton, from an Arkansas single-parent
family married Hillary Rodham, who attended Yale law School with Bill.
Hillary was from a wealthy Illinois family and graduated from
Wellesley College. Not to take any credit from President Clinton of
his achievements, but Mrs. Clintons family and his roots at Yale and
Georgetown contributed significantly to his success throughout his
career. Jack Welsh, the retired CEO and Chairman of one of world's
largest and most respected companies - General Electric, earned his
PhD in chemical engineering from Illinois. He handpicked successor,
Mr. Jeff Immelt, who holds a B.S. degree in Liberal Arts with a major
in Applied Mathematics from Dartmouth College and an MBA from Harvard
University.
Harvard and the Ivy League have become the major access roads to power
in America, and these roads are being closed off to ethnic Catholics
and white Christians, cried Pat Buchanan.
A few years back, Pat Buchanans view was echoed by a Harvard graduate,
Ron Unz, who wrote in the Wall Street Journal about the admissions
policies at his alma mater and the student body it produced: With
affirmative action for preferred minorities and set-asides for
children of alumni and faculty, foreign students, and athletes,
Harvard's student body, said Unz, had begun to look like the Greenwich
Village Democratic Club. According to Unz, 15 percent of Harvard's
student body is Hispanic or black, 20 percent is Asian, 25 to 33
percent is Jewish, but only 25 percent comes from that 75 percent of
America that is white and Christian. Christians are being frozen out
of the elite schools that control the access to power in a nation that
Christians, primarily, built.
However, in challenging this Ivy League bigotry, Republicans have
shown all the courage of Larry Summers. Nevertheless, Congress ought
to demand that the Department of Education require all Ivy League
schools to report annually on the religious and ethnic composition of
their faculties and student bodies, and, if Unz's percentages hold,
should be asked what they are doing to end this discrimination. After
all, if it is illegal for Irish cops to get their kids preferences,
why is it OK for Harvard professors? Regardless the fact of 70% white
American presence at Ivy schools, Ron Unzs number on Asian Americans
Ivy school presence typified todays bashing on Asian Americans. And
what really matters here is that he is advocating that Ivy schools to
admit student based on % of population and not by merit. There is
definitely a confused issue of affirmative action on ivy school
admissions.
The Trend
(References: [6]Attaining Ivy; [7]Asian Americans at Duke; [8]What to
Do When "Outstanding" Is Average)
These days, kids feel like they have to be veritable Greek gods and
goddesses in order to get into college," says Richard Powell, upper
school director at the private Oak Hall School in Gainesville, Fla.
Zach Clayton, for example, a senior at Broughton High School in
Raleigh, N.C., is a top cross-country runner and a former intern at
the Washington office of Sen. Jesse Helms. He has taken several
college-level courses and has served as the chair of the National
Student Council and a statewide teen Republicans organization. He gets
up at 5 a.m. and goes to bed at 1 a.m., answering e-mails deep into
the night. Still, the 16-year-old has no illusions about actually
getting into his triumvirate of hope: Harvard, Yale, or Princeton.
"Everybody knows that more and more schools are simply impossible to
get into," Zach says. "It's pretty intimidating."
Like many private high schools, Roxbury Latin High, with 21.1%
graduates matriculated at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton, strongly
encourages its students to apply for early decision or early action.
According to graduate Henry Seton, at least two-thirds of his
classmates got into college early. For yield reasons, many colleges
accept a higher percentage of early applicants than regular
applicants; these are usually guaranteed, "Will come. In the year
2000, Harvard accepted about 1,000 students of the 6,100 who applied
early, leaving just 1,000 spots for the other 13,500 students who
applied during regular admissions.
Asian Americans with SAT scores less than 1500 have little chance in
gaining a regular admission to Ivy League Schools. Moreover, many
Asian Americans with SAT scores higher than 1500 were not admitted by
any Ivy School. However, those with SAT scores above 1400 if applied
early may have a good chance to be admitted.
In addition to applying for [9]early decision, applying to certain
schools that traditionally lack Asian American applicants (Chicago,
Duke, WashU-STL, Rice, and Tufts) may increase the odds substantially.
Duke has difficulty in attracting Asian American students for several
reasons, particularly its location in the South. "Most Asians don't
pick Duke as their first choice, the most qualified Asian students
aren't even bothering to apply." said Patty Chen, president of Asian
Student Association at Duke University.
Christoph Guttentag, director of undergraduate admissions, agreed that
Duke's location might be a detractor. "Many families do have a problem
with the fact that we are in the South," he said. Stanford has been a
favorite for California Asian Americans. However, more and more Asian
Americans start to realize that the good old boy network and the
geographic center of culture, education and finance of the northeast
are important to highly qualified whites.
Stanfords white American ratio is at 45% of its student body, a number
somewhat less than the white high school student ratio graduated in
California, as compared to 70% white at Ivy Schools. This preference
by the white Americans is even worse at Berkeley, where white
applicants (no correlation to admission) have dropped 50% in the last
ten years. Even with a lower admission standard for the white
Americans on SAT requirement (100 points lower than the Asian
Americans average scores of 1300), the white students at Berkeley are
31.7% of total students. While the SAT scores required for African and
Hispanic Americans are [10]substantially lower than those required for
the white Americans, Asian Americans are vital to the achievement of
academic excellence at Stanford and Berkeley. Consequently, Asian
Americans at those schools [11]are peering with less competitive
students.
Most Asian Americans cannot forego the temptation of applying to
Harvard. Almost all Asian Americans are applying early at Harvard
regardless of their real chance in getting into Harvard or other Ivy
Schools. The rule of thumb in getting the Harvard admission is pending
on the achievement of the 18 year-old high school senior. If the
applicant has not won a national title, recognition, or
distinguishable accomplishment, the chance of being admitted is almost
zero.
Asian Americans are slow in learning from WASP to apply early to
increase the odds of being admitted by an Ivy school. They have
difficult time assessing their qualification and accomplishment
realistically. However, some have started to work with the high school
counselors closely to formulate college application strategies.
Particularly the parents of Asian Americans, in against to their
tradition of distancing between the teacher and student, are listening
to the suggestions from school consolers. On average, an applicant
spent 45 days in filling out their early application form and writing
that essay. Applicants completed the remaining 6 to 9 applications in
less than two weeks after their first school of choice (Harvard)
deferred them. It is evident the quality of the subsequent
applications have little chance to win. Those who did met with greater
success with the benefit of the experience of the high school
counselors, who knows what kinds of students from that high school
have been admitted by various highly selective colleges in the past.
Determination
Those being admitted by a highly selective college know that the
application process alone is worth three credit hours of an advanced
humanity class. It is actually more than that; it requires years of
preparation to be admitted by an Ivy League school. It takes a joint
effort of the parents and children. It takes money, planning,
determination, and lots of hard work.
Most Asian Americans are very academically demanding of their
children, but many give up at the very end due to concern for the cost
of attending a highly selective college. However, there is no shortage
of Asian American parents willing to pay that premium to send their
kids to Ivy schools, as they can easily relay the experience of what
their parents have done for them to come to America and its relative
cost associated with their parents income and wealth. The cost does
not scare many Asian Americans and prevent their children from
applying to a highly selective college.
Some people say, Ivy Schools are not for every child or Ivy Schools
are for nobody but rich and spoiled kids. To Asian Americans, this
sounds like sour grapes or a strategy to eliminate competitions at
precious Ivy school admissions. Many Asian American parents with
graduate degrees truly believe that their achievement was limited to
lack of Kuan Xi as who you know and concluded that that is where they
want to make it up for their children. Moreover, they truly believe it
is their responsibility to give their children the opportunity to grow
and prosper. Either through their savings, grants, scholarships, or
loans, they always seem to find a way to pay.
Just look at those in the Ivy Schools, you know who will be running
our country tomorrow. We need to ensure the dominance of White
Christians at Ivy Schools, said by Pat Buchanan, the conservative
Republican and former presidential candidate. Mr. Buchanan may not
realize just how much impact that will have on Asian Americans.
References
1. http://career.berkeley.edu/MedStats/19972001top20.stm
2. http://career.berkeley.edu/Law/lawStats.stm
3. http://www.baptiststandard.com/1999/3_10/pages/harvard.html
4. http://www.arthurhu.com/99/17/morejew.txt
5. http://www.theamericancause.org/pathowtoprint.htm
6. http://www.kustav.com/thoughts/attaining_ivy.html
7. http://www.asianam.org/asian_americans_at_duke.htm
8. http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/1008/p13s01-lehl.html
9. http://www.collegiatechoice.com/myearlydec.htm
10. http://www.capolicycenter.org/ct_0495/ctn1_0495.html
11. http://sanfrancisco.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/stories/2002/09/02/editorial2.html
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