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How did they know you are Asian? Could you have just checked a different box and got in, at least to state schools which don't do interviews? (I am in no way s
by jeffdavis 6y ago
How did they know you are Asian? Could you have just checked a different box and got in, at least to state schools which don't do interviews?
(I am in no way suggesting that it's right to make people misrepresent their ethnicity to get fair treatment.)
- johntiger1 6y agoNot sure if you're serious, but don't they generally have access to a person's name?
- mirimir 6y agoI can imagine being Black with an Asian name.
- WholeLottaTrash 6y agoMy name is a dead giveaway that it is foreign.
- TheSpiceIsLife 6y agoHave you seen this? found that people with Chinese, Indian or Pakistani-sounding names were 28% less likely to get invited to an interview than the fictitious candidates with English-sounding names, even when their qualifications were the same. https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2017/05/job-applications-resume-cv-name-descrimination/ https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2017/05/job-applications-resu...
- WholeLottaTrash 6y agoThanks for sharing this. Will read. I'm not surprised.
- jeffdavis 6y agoDo state schools really look at names? It's hard for me to imagine a state school looking at peoples names or pictures and reclassifying the races of applicants. It would be fairly disturbing if they did, in fact. (Again, I'm not suggesting that you should have to misrepresent your race to be treated fairly. I'm just suggesting that, from a practical standpoint, you could probably avoid discrimination in state school college applications by ticking a box that would be more favorable to you.)