Retrospectively, the NYT's editors learned that the article could easily be
the most laughed at analysis ever. It had 747 comments. 3 out of 4 comments panned the article severely. Go take a
look at those comments. At the article,
go to the upper extreme right corner and click on 747. Go to the "Reader's Picks" category to read how ordinary Americans feel.
The tide has definitely turned in our favor. The American public speaks out strongly against discrimination against AsAms students.
80-20 again played a key role. One of the 80-20 PAC Board members, Ved Chaudhary, submitted a comment to NYT. His comment was selected by NYT as one of 26 in the "NYT Picks" category. However, in complete contrast to the view of ordinary citizens, NYT picked mostly "politically correct" comments. Ved's comment garnered 106 recommends.
The most popular comment was apparently also submitted by an AsAm. See below for the comment submitted by Avi. We are proud of Avi. His comment garnered 423 recommends!
Put Your Shoulder On the Wheel!
It disregards the basic underlying fact that the Ivys are like the Olympics of the academic world. Is NYT going to do a racial analysis of athletes selected for the Olympics? Does it make sense to do that. Will Olympics still be Olympics if they took diversity/equal representation as objective? The analysis of admissions at Top Universities makes just as much (or as little) sense. Selection should be based on objective performance whether it is Olympics or the Top universities. Only then will they continue to foster the highest human achievement in a field where aptitude coupled with long term sustained high quality training, practice, and ambition to excel are required. Some ethnic groups take interest in professions (STEM, law, medicine); their children do well in preparing for those fields. Whats wrong with that? Why shouldn't they get admission based on merit and aptitude rather than be restricted by their race? What is race? Asian American is NOT A RACE. These people who came from 18 countries of South Asia, East Asia, South-east Asia and pacific islands, have such diversity of skin color, languages, foods/cuisine, faith/religions, social customs and socio-economic background that there is more diversity presented by Asian Americans than all other races combined.