Discrimination against Asian applicants for college admission

In 2004, a Pulitzer-prize winning book documented discrimination and stereotypes against Asians in college admissions. It is similar to what Jewish students and Black athletes faced 50 years ago.

Here's an excerpt from a November 2006 Wall Street Journal article about this:
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In 1990, a federal investigation concluded that Harvard admitted Asian American applicants at a lower rate than white students despite the Asian’ slightly stronger test scores and grades. Federal investigators also found that Harvard University admissions staff had stereotyped Asian American candidates as quiet, shy and oriented toward math and science. The government didn’t bring charges because it concluded it was Harvard’s preferences for athletes and alumni children – few of whom were Asian – that accounted for the admissions gap.

The University of California came under the same scrutiny at about the same time. In 1989, as the federal government was investigating alleged Asian American quotas at the UC’s Berkeley campus, Berkeley’s chancellor apologized for a drop in Asian enrollment. The next year, federal investigators found that the mathematics department at UCLA had discriminated against Asian American graduate school applicants. In 1992, Berkeley’s law school agreed under federal pressure to drop a policy that limited Asian enrollment by comparing Asian applicants against each other rather than the entire applicant pool.

The Center for Equal Opportunity study found that, among applicants with a 1240 SAT score and 3.2 grade point average in 2005, the university admitted 10% of Asian Americans, 14% of whites, 88% of Hispanics, and 92% of blacks. Asian applicants to the university’s medical school also faced a higher admissions bar than any other group.
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Here is a link to the book:
http://www.amazon.com/Price-Admission-Americas-Colleges-Outside/dp/1400097967

Here is a flawed Harvard Crimson editorial on it, but with excellent comments below it:
http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=515908

There is a growing facebook group about this now. Show your support by joining 'College Admissions Process Prejudice Against Asian Americans':
http://mit.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2216920990