BREAKING: Yale university discriminated against Asian and White applicants

Fluffy Duffy wrote:

When you make completely ridiculous statements like this, nobody can take your seriously. As someone who is involved as an alumnus at a top school regarding admissions, I can assure you that no white people ever are getting a boost because they are white. It might be because they are legacy kids but that's not affirmative action and it has nothing to do with their skin.

Affirmative action is not only race based. It is also gender based you ignoramus. Thats why white women are the biggest beneficiaries. Read wider.

The problem with their racist policy is that they are not eliminating trust fund kids because the best performing black students are also the richest ones just like it is for white kids. So they are taking a trust fund black kid with a 31 ACT over a poor Asian or White kid with a 35 ACT. If they based it on income, that would make sense. Why not give a boost to an underprivileged kid? Basing a boost entirely on skin color is immoral and illegal. What if kids starting saying that they were black? According to The New York Times, the median family income of a student from Yale is $192,600.

yall wrote:

The above poster is absolutely right. No one talks about it but there are huge levels of affirmative action for “development” cases, aka children of prospective or past donors. This is equal to paying to get in. Often the minimum to be in this exclusive group is often 50k and above, or even 6 figures at some higher institutions. If you’re legacy, then it’s essentially 100% guarantee that you’ll get in. Many of the Fortune 500 CEOs on Harvard’s fundraising board get a free pass for their children. Guess what the majority of these kids look like? WHITE.

...And a kid can’t get in if they are white, not rich or legacies. They have a 0% chance. I’m not sure how that is fair by any standard.

Really the only fair way to handle it is for admissions not to have any knowledge of race for applicants.

We are trying to be a greater society by choosing people with the most important deciding factor being the color of their skin? How is that not idiocy?

In favor of a white ethnic group that does not think of itself as white and who cannot be mentioned.

To democrats and colleges, "identity" is everything. Joe Biden's "you ain't black" comment is the perfect example. They will ALWAYS make assumptions about you based on what group you belong to and they will treat you accordingly. Another example is Joe Biden at a Hispanic heritage event:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXOlvWw8uXs

The worst example:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-AKUNpcLRg

I haven't heard of this before, thanks for sharing it on the forum! I got to this thread quite by accident, but it turned out to be useful. I am currently writing a short article on human rights, and in the essay examples I also read a lot about discrimination in education. If anyone is interested, here https://graduateway.com/essay-examples/human-rights/ there are many posts on this topic. I hope this will help you and me to study this issue and learn not only to be able to defend your own rights, but also to be a little more tolerant of each other.

Yeah, this is real. I would recommend you to view John Stossel's vid about discrimination in american colleges.

Harvard was accused of same and it went to trial and the finding was yes, it does discriminate against Asians and (non Jewish) whites but it's just fine and dandy to do so

This is not new, nor should it be news. The very top colleges build incoming classes very carefully. 20 apply to Yale for every 1 admission spot. First, they have to field sports teams based on talent amongst those academically in the ballpark. Preference is given to legacies and “developmental admits” whose parents donated enough to buy another Gettenburg bible. Minority students of African American, Hispanic, and Native American heritage make up some finite percentage of the incoming class. The remaining spots are based on merit but not based just on perfect test scores and 4.0 grades because that would make for a rather nerdish class. Highly selective colleges like UC Berkeley have a very different student body demographic.

White guilt strikes again.

It really helps diversify by selecting a black kid from Nashville, TN with a 30 on his ACT whose father is a lawyer while passing over a white kid from rural TN who had a 35 on his ACT who is raised by a single mother working at Walmart. The black kid attends a private school with mainly white kids while the white kid attends a public school with 1/2 black students.