{"id":15112,"date":"2013-03-13T03:03:01","date_gmt":"2013-03-13T03:03:01","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2013-03-13T03:03:01","modified_gmt":"2013-03-13T03:03:01","slug":"Discrimination-Against-Asians-In-College-Admissions--conversation--Listen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/?p=15112","title":{"rendered":"Discrimination Against Asians In College Admissions &#8211; conversation!! Listen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>In just days now, spring college admissions letters will start to flow.<\/strong>  Here\u2019s a wrinkle you may not have thought of.  A lot of Asian-Americans, with high scores and high grades, feel they\u2019re not getting an even break.  Feel that top colleges are tapping the brakes on Asian-American admissions to hold down Asian-American enrollment.<\/p>\n<p>Meaning an Asian-American kid, they say, has to clear an unfairly high bar to get in.  In the age of Tiger Mom talk and affirmative action angst, that\u2019s a volatile charge.<\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F82792621&#038;show_artwork=false\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Guests are:<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Carolyn Chen,<\/strong> director in Asian American Studies at Northwestern University, where she is also professor of sociology. In December she wrote an op-ed in the New York Times titled, \u201cAsians: Too Smart for Their Own Good?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rod Bugarin,<\/strong> has spent more than 15 years in admissions offices at selective schools, including Wesleyan, Brown and Columbia. In the New York Times\u2019 Room for Debate pages, he wrote a response to Carolyn Chen\u2019s op-ed: \u201cScores Aren\u2019t the Only Qualification.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>David Hollinger,<\/strong> professor of history at the University of California, Berkeley, where he has taught since 1992.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In just days now, spring college admissions letters will start to flow. 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