zhugeIiang

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by zhugeIiang 7y ago
http://public.econ.duke.edu/~psarcidi/legacyathlete.pdf See page 45. Asians have a much higher bar and lower probability of getting in after balancing for same academic level. Seems like discrimination to me.
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by zhugeIiang 7y ago
Agreed, it is time to stand up for our rights.
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by zhugeIiang 7y ago
Sports and drama are fine as long as they aren't the overriding factor. The research on the Harvard statistics show that playing a sport will increase your admission chance from 10% in the top academic bracket to 50%. Sport, legacy (
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by zhugeIiang 7y ago
We have to consider not about who gets into Harvard. What is more important is the incentive structure that our education system is creating. If our system rewards people who play "victimization" games, that would encourage the
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by zhugeIiang 7y ago
So... whites steal from black bucket, so that makes it ok for the black bucket to steal from the Asian bucket?
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by zhugeIiang 7y ago
I propose creating a school that only looks at quantitative measures, gives a single test once a year that is grueling in mathematics, science, logic, reading, and writing. They just pick the top x-percentile of students. If there is a ti
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by zhugeIiang 7y ago
Why not both?
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by zhugeIiang 7y ago
Stuyvesant used to have 13% African American students in the 1970s, matching the overall population. The test system didn't change, but the African American demographics in Stuyvesant dropped to 1%. Does this mean that the impacts of
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