福克斯:第二代华裔 SAT1590,被六所申请的大学包括哈佛伯克利等全部拒绝

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我申请的顶级学校是麻省理工学院、加州理工学院、普林斯顿大学、哈佛大学、卡内基梅隆大学和加州大学伯克利分校,”他说。

王被他们所有人拒绝了。

但拒绝信并非没有警告。 王告诉 Fox Nation,他在申请过程中与朋友和学校辅导员交谈,他们都发出了奇怪的警告。

“他们都告诉我,要进去更难,尤其是作为一个亚裔美国人。我只是把它当作流言。”

正如 Fox Nation 特别节目中探讨的那样,这本书说,作为亚裔美国人申请大学在许多精英学校可能是一个“明显的劣势”。 它还指示申请人不要在申请中包含自己的照片,如果可能的话,不要提供有关种族背景的可选答案,并避免撰写关于认同两种文化的重要性的录取论文。

“我给了他们我的考试成绩,然后他们一定在上面运行了模型……[他们]告诉我,我有 20% 的机会作为亚裔美国人被哈佛大学录取,但如果作为非裔美国人,有 95% 的机会, “ 他说。

"The top-tier schools I applied to were MIT, CalTech, Princeton, Harvard, Carnegie-Mellon and U.C. Berkeley," he said.

Wang was rejected by all of them.

But the rejection letters didn't come without warning. Wang told Fox Nation he talked to friends and school guidance counselors going into the application process, and they all issued a bizarre warning. 

"They all told me that it's tougher to get in, especially as an Asian American. I just took it as gospel."

Wang, the child of two first-generation Chinese immigrants, is one of the people behind the Plaintiff group taking on Harvard University and the University of North Carolina – two institutions whose race-based admissions practices have emerged at the epicenter of affirmative action practices for public and private institutions.

He shared his story in the Fox Nation special "The Diversity Verdict," which is available for streaming, Thursday. 

Last fall, the high court heard two cases dealing with the issue, deciding to keep them separate since Harvard is a private institution and UNC is public, creating distinct legal concerns.

At stake in the Harvard case is whether the university violated Title VI of the Civil Rights Act by discriminating against Asian-American applicants. The UNC case, in contrast, looks at UNC's unwillingness to adopt a "race-neutral alternative." 

Either of the two cases could overturn 2003 precedent case, Grutter v. Bollinger, wherein the court ultimately ruled that the use of race as an admissions factor was not unconstitutional as long as it was narrowly tailored to further the compelling interests of obtaining the educational benefits available in a diverse student body.

But, is getting accepted to college more difficult for Asian American applicants? Ingraham said The Princeton Review, a company that provides college prep and test-taking advice for high schoolers hoping to go to college, agrees with Wang's concern.

A passage from its book, "Cracking College Admissions" notes that the high success of many Asian-American students has generated concerns among some schools who allege there are "too many" on their campuses.

As explored in the Fox Nation special, the book says applying to college as an Asian American could be a "distinct disadvantage" at many elite schools. It also instructs applicants to refrain from including a photo of themselves in their application and withhold optional answers about ethnic background, if possible, as well as to avoid writing admissions essays about the significance of identifying with two cultures.

"I was scared of getting backlash on social media for it [raising awareness about unfair admissions]," Wang said. "For fighting for what I think is a really important issue." 

But he found a space among Students for Fair Admissions.

"I gave them my test scores, and then they must've ran the model on that… [they] told me I had a 20% chance of getting accepted to Harvard as an Asian American and a 95% chance as an African American," he said.