That level of achievement results in part, she explains, from many new Asian immigrants - many of whom are from India or China - “that are largely professionals coming through high-skilled immigration visas.” “On the other hand, Asian Americans are doing quite well in education.” “Asian Americans certainly do face discrimination, deadly at times, as we know all too well in recent months,” she said. Warikoo, who is Indian American, says the idea that Asians are a model minority is complicated. Chinese Americans were the least likely ethnicity to support the practice, with 56 percent of them in favor. “That percentage seems to be declining slightly among Chinese Americans.”Ī 2020 voter survey found 70 percent of Asian Americans supported affirmative action, while 16 percent opposed it. “When we look at national surveys of Asian Americans, a majority of Asian Americans support affirmative action,” Warikoo said. While some Asian Americans like Chen believe they are being held to higher standards, Warikoo says that’s a less common view in the community. “Asian Americans are incredibly diverse,” said Natasha Warikoo, who teaches sociology at Tufts University and writes in her book The Diversity Bargain about how students at selective colleges think about merit and race.
Top Schools Worry Supreme Court Could Undercut Diversity Efforts With Harvard Case
In Harvard Discrimination Case, A Duel Between Narratives And Statistics Judge Rules Harvard Does Not Discriminate Against Asian-Americans National origin is not an issue in the lawsuit. District Court Judge Allison Burroughs and the 1st Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston ruled Harvard does not discriminate against Asian Americans, who account for 24 percent of Harvard’s latest class and just 6 percent of high school graduates.Īs the Supreme Court weighs whether to hear the case, two Chinese Americans not involved in the lawsuit have granted GBH News interviews to claim - without concrete evidence - that they were denied admission to Harvard or Princeton because of their race and ethnicity. Instead, the plaintiffs relied on statistics, arguing the school's admissions officers methodically hold Asian Americans to higher standards.īut U.S.
HARVARD SAT SCORES TRIAL
During a three-week trial in Boston in 2018, no former applicants took the stand to say Harvard rejected them because of their race. “They just lumped me into the Asian category, and the data quite clearly shows that,” Chen said, charging without evidence undergraduate admissions officers there “were not willing to look at us as individuals.”Ĭhen echoes arguments of other frustrated Asian-American critics who are suing Harvard, whose holistic approach to evaluating applicants has in the past won praise from the Supreme Court. The reason, he alleges, was discrimination. Harrison Chen doesn't like to brag, but the 21-year-old son of Chinese immigrants graduated at the top of his high school class and logged almost perfect scores on the SAT.
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