Fiscal Affirmative Action: Universities May Prefer Rich Chinese Students to Asian-Americans
In discussions of affirmative action, the plight of Asian Americans is often overlooked by proponents.
However, a review of admittance numbers shows there may be another challenge for that particular group of students — rich Asians who will pay full tuition.
United States universities favoring wealthy Chinese students over Asian-Americans has been a point of debate for some time now. With the acceptance rates in prestigious universities falling down every year, concerns among the Asian-Americans have risen about their chances of getting into good educational institutes.
Last December’s statistics show that some of the reputed universities have taken in fewer Asian-Americans despite their high test scores and academic performance.
The Caixin magazine editorial notes that in the last 5 to 6 years, elite American universities have been receiving less private and public funding. So the only option left for them is to admit international students who pay full tuition fee.
Wu Yuci, the author of the editorial writes that Asians, who account for just 11 percent of the U.S. senior high school students, get unfair treatment during the admission process in these schools compared to other ethnic groups, such as African-Americans or Latinos. However, National Young Scholars comprises of 60 percent of the Asians.
A report in Quartz points out that as China’s economy has developed; more rich families are willing to send their children to American schools. It writes that the daughter of Xi Jinping, current Chinese president, studies at Harvard under a pseudonym, and the son of ousted Chinese official Bo Xilai attended Columbia and Harvard.
China beats other Asian countries such as Japan, Taiwan, and India in topping the charts for having more number of students in the U.S. universities. Data from last year shows China as a major sender of international students to the US for the fourth year in a row.
Yuci states in the article that certain universities defend themselves saying that an individual’s overall performance is considered during admissions. This is a subtle way of saying that Asian-Americans do not meet the leadership standards, independence and curiosity levels, the article notes.
Do U.S. Universities Leave Out Asian-Americans for Rich Chinese Students? (University Herald)
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Most rich Chinese students have a massive sense of entitlement, are bone lazy, and expect to get great grades for doing minimal work or cheating. They do not expect to work hard through university having busted their arses at the GaoKao, if they do the university entrance exam at all. They are accustomed to teachers who want to be liked and so are not firm with them. They will play games on their cellphone, text their friends, sleep in class, whine, bitch, and moan. Momma and poppa got bread and the little emperor or empress does not regard work of any kind as something that should be done. They have the latest iObject, the latest BMW, the latest hot girlfriend, and money is no object.
The poor kids are hungry. The rich ones, not so much. The rich Chinese parent who practices tough love is non-existent though some of them do encourage their kids to work hard.
American universities should reject these slackers and admit their own Asians or find some poor, hardworking mainland Chinese students and give them scholarships. The gratitude would be enormous. The rich ones? They think it’s their right to go to the best schools, not because they earned it but because their parents have the bling and can pay for it.