'I work in college admissions. Asians didn't win at SCOTUS'
has ruled on the anti-discrimination lawsuit filed against Harvard University back in 2014 by a group called"Students for Fair Admission," and reversed its previous ruling on the matter, essentially ending affirmative action.
The suit alleged that Harvard practices"race-based discrimination against Asian applicants" by holding them to a higher academic standard than other applicants. At the heart of the case against Harvard is the argument that Asian applicants are systematically disadvantaged by the"personal" score used by the university to gauge applicants'"soft" qualities like"likability, courage, kindness and being 'widely respected,'" and, as a result, are admitted in much lower numbers than would otherwise be the case if test scores and other"hard" criteria alone were considered. Stock image. The Supreme Court overturned race-based college admissions in a recent ruling. Leelila Strogov believes this was a loss for Asian students, a group the lawsuit was supposed to benefit.The fact that Asian American applicants are disadvantaged by this"soft" measure should rightly prompt a discussion about race, admissions criteria, and what colleges ought to value when weighing potential applicants.My opinions are influenced by my many years of personal experience advising students in the college admissions process. In particular, I work with many Asian-American and international Asian students, especially students from China or of Chinese descent. It's provided insight into the personal and cultural dynamics impacting how Asian and Asian-American students present themselves in the college admissions process, and how colleges perceive them. Furthermore, my husband runs our company together with me. He's Chinese-American, and earned a degree from Harvard. One consistently recurring theme in our interactions with Asian students and their families is a conviction that merit and achievement can be precisely quantified, and anything that cannot be easily and objectively quantified simply should not matter. This view shapes many Asian students' self-perceptions and academic/life paths. It is also the same notion that underlies the argument being made in the Students for Fair Admission lawsuit, where the plaintiffs assert that only grades and test scores should influence admissions decisions. Because of the prevalence of this conviction among many Chinese and Chinese-American people, for instance, we often find ourselves arguing with parents fixated on perfectly measurable standards of accomplishment.
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