Some Asian Americans believe college officials will find ways to get around the ban and ensure they admit enough underrepresented students, including Black Americans and Latinos.
Cecilia Chang bluntly told her two kids: You have to try harder because of who you are.— “You’re competing for a very little number of seats with all these qualified Asian kids,” she said.will change much. She supports college officials trying to bring in students from “all walks of life,” and she thinks they will find a way to achieve the racial diversity they’re looking for.“It doesn’t mean s— to us,” said Chang, who runs a disability-related nonprofit and came to the U.S.
The odds of getting in are so low, with Harvard’s 2023 admissions rate at less than 4%, that some say it’s an impossible goal made no easier by the abandoning of racial preferences. The lifting of standardized testing requirements for many colleges means that admissions are even less predictable and harder to ensure just by studying hard.
In fall 2022, UC admitted Asian Americans at the highest rate among all first-year California applicants: about 73% compared with 63% for Latinos, 57% for whites and 56% for Black students.higher SAT test scores than most other groups But she believes that colleges are trying to find students who are “a good fit” and that the Supreme Court ruling won’t change that.the lack of a standardized testing requirementBerkeley University student Calvin Yang, center, flanked by Edward Blum, left, and Adam Mortaraw, speaks during a news conference on the Supreme Court’s affirmative action in college admissions decision at the Press Club in Washington on Thursday.
After the Supreme Court decision was released Thursday, Chen said she hopes the discussion will continue about “how our current system is failing so many students.” There is a “real deep sense of sadness” about how the decision treats college admission as a zero-sum game, said Chen, who is the organization’s education equity policy director.
Some Asian American high school students fear that with the end of affirmative action, they will attend colleges with less diverse student bodies.
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