By Eric Wu, bostonese.com
Boston, August 3, 2015, — If you are one of the top students of your high school class, and many of your classmates with lower GPAs and SAT scores got accepted to the same universities that you have also applied for, you would think your chances of being admitted should be pretty good. Too bad, you have been rejected by all the nine US universities you have applied, and the only option left is to study at a foreign college when the new school year starts.
Two Asian students on a college campus(file photo).
The Asian American Coalition recently submitted a request to Catherine Lhamon, Secretary of the US Department of Education, asking her to investigate the appeal filed by the father of an Asian American applicant. This father’s daughter applied for the admission to nine universities in the U.S. but has been unfairly rejected by all, who eventually decided to study abroad.
The nine universities in the east and central area of the United States the girl applied to included Yale University, Columbia University, Duke University, University of Pennsylvania, Brown University, Dartmouth University, Cornell University, University of Chicago and Amherst College. Similar farces directed by admission committees have also been on show in front of many other outstanding Asian applicants frequently in recent years. Boston Bilingual Online Journal would like to remind Asian applicants to consider the institutes other than the so-called “top universities” due to the ridiculous restrictions based on racial background in the admission process. Otherwise it is possible to have no available college or university to attend, which will be a pity.
According to the father’s appeal, this Asian applicant almost got perfect scores in the SAT/ACT tests, and obtain regional and national honors in a number of extracurricular activities. Unfortunately, all of the nine universities turned blind eyes at these excellence. Sixteen of her classmates, who was doing not as well as her in either the exams or the extracurricular activities, have been accepted by the institutes in the Ivy League or other so-called “best universities or colleges”.
“We feel indignant at such sorts of injustice in the admission process for Asian American applicants. So many American universities rejected her and admitted less eligible applicants instead, only because of her “improper racial background”, which is an obvious violation of the American spirit claimed by the U.S. itself. This case clearly proved that admission process at the Ivy-League universities and some other so-called “top universities” is not free from racial discrimination.We urge the US Department of Education, in accordance with relevant ordinances and procedures, to hear our appeal. Meanwhile, we require the Department of Education to take immediate actions to protect her, since she was infringed by those institutes despite her rights granted by the U.S. constitution. Due to the absence of oversight by the US government, Ivy-League universities and other so-called “best universities” are still violating the civil rights of Asian American applicants. It is now time for the Department of Education to take an action!” said the Asian-American Education Alliance to Catherine Lhamon, Assistant Minister of the Office for Civil Rights in the US Department of Education.