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In reply to the discussion: Why should I vote Democratic? [View all]bluestate10
(10,942 posts)what they found was that if they used just grades and test scores, they would admit no group other than people from the various Asian groups, Indian, Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese, ect. One objective of colleges and Universities is diversity in the student body, that diversity promotes broader thought. Personally, I feel that having Indians, Chinese, Japanese and other Asian groups as a student body delivers diversity on it's own, I deal with members of all Asian groups, none are cookie cutter form for the other, the one common characteristic is generally high academic performance among some Asian groups, probably because student's grandparents and parents came to the country for advanced study and simply understand the benefits of education and push their offspring to become educated.
BTW. Did you realize that seats in colleges are held for children of alumni or big contributors, or professors? I went to college with two kids whose parents were college professors and who got reduced cost education because of that fact, they also got admitted under special circumstances. I had no issue with them because both were bright, high performing students.