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A grades and SAT admission model creates a class that is ~70% Asian. America’s future leadership class is categorically not 70% Asian.

rohit2412 7y ago
Why not? If Asians are hardworking enough to occupy 70% of the top positions, why not?
- golemiprague 7y ago
  Because leadership or success in life in general or creativity is not only about sitting at home and studying after school. It is one factor but there are multiple of other factors. The fact is that we don't see anything special from all those hard working Asians, that's the bottom line, they are good for some type of upper middle class maybe. The Asian success is a glitch in the high school system that awards hard work over talent, social skills and creativity, but Harvard is a bit smarter than that and they know nothing interesting will come out from someone who just ticked boxes and put extra 4 hours a day into studying and violin lessons.
- barry-cotter 7y ago
  Because “leadership” in anything requiring a democracy requires people to vote for you or at least not actively work against you. This is far from impossible, America’s leadership class heavily overweights Yankees and Jewish people compared to their share of the population but change is always hard. It’s probably a lot harder if there’s a constant drum beat of race talk insisting that X-Americans have a completely different life experience from Y-Americans but it’s not like this is unprecedented. Anti-semitism was widespread across Europe before, during and after Jewish Emancipation and in every country where Hitler and the locals didn’t kill them Jews are over represented in the professional and leadership classes.
richmunk567 7y ago
There are things other than hard work required for leadership in politics, business and even science. Those things appear to correspond with academic performance at different rates for different populations. https://www.unz.com/article/why-harvard-is-right-to-discriminate-against-asians/ https://www.unz.com/article/why-harvard-is-right-to-discrimi...

rohit2412 7y ago

Why not? If Asians are hardworking enough to occupy 70% of the top positions, why not?

golemiprague 7y ago
Because leadership or success in life in general or creativity is not only about sitting at home and studying after school. It is one factor but there are multiple of other factors. The fact is that we don't see anything special from all those hard working Asians, that's the bottom line, they are good for some type of upper middle class maybe. The Asian success is a glitch in the high school system that awards hard work over talent, social skills and creativity, but Harvard is a bit smarter than that and they know nothing interesting will come out from someone who just ticked boxes and put extra 4 hours a day into studying and violin lessons.
barry-cotter 7y ago
Because “leadership” in anything requiring a democracy requires people to vote for you or at least not actively work against you. This is far from impossible, America’s leadership class heavily overweights Yankees and Jewish people compared to their share of the population but change is always hard. It’s probably a lot harder if there’s a constant drum beat of race talk insisting that X-Americans have a completely different life experience from Y-Americans but it’s not like this is unprecedented. Anti-semitism was widespread across Europe before, during and after Jewish Emancipation and in every country where Hitler and the locals didn’t kill them Jews are over represented in the professional and leadership classes.

richmunk567 7y ago

There are things other than hard work required for leadership in politics, business and even science. Those things appear to correspond with academic performance at different rates for different populations. https://www.unz.com/article/why-harvard-is-right-to-discriminate-against-asians/ https://www.unz.com/article/why-harvard-is-right-to-discrimi...