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In this memo I will be going over Higher Education Debates dealing with the fears of Asian quotas being imposed; as well as going over why there seems to be a trend of Asian-American parents who are more biased towards prestigious colleges. For the first article regarding Asian quotas, I will be summarizing and reflecting upon the six arguments whether it is believed that certain Ivy league schools impose a quota on the Asian-American population or not. As for the piece dealing with Asian American parent preferring Ivy League schools for their children, I will briefly summarize and discuss the cultural reasons why Asian-American parents are highly selective over their college choices for their children. In Ron Unz’s debate, he provides statistical evidence indicating that Ivy league schools place quotas on the Asian-American population …show more content…

A valid reason why legacies are often times more favored, is since the parents who are alumni could afford to attend that university when they were students and now their children are eligible to be accepted; chances are they are more likely to pay out of pocket since they are wealthy enough to afford it, and financial aid is of no concern to them. But for Asian-Americans, who are already less likely to be legacies, means that they could possibly come from middle income families meaning that they do need financial aid to help them afford attending certain Ivy League schools. At the end of the day, admission processes could be more bias towards legacies since they are wealthy enough to pay for their children’s schooling as opposed to most Asian-Americans who rely on the federal government to help fund their schooling. From what we can glean from this information, admissions appear to favor legacies due to the fact that they are able to pay out of pocket, which helps to directly support the school in various ways and keep its status as a top ranking private research institution reaffirming the belief that money is indeed

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In “Net (Race) Neutral: An Essay on How GPA + (reweighted) SAT - Race = Diversity,” Christine Goodman illustrates the opposing viewpoints in regards to the racial discriminatory efforts by the college institutions to help diversify the incoming freshman class. With this, Goodman provides statistics and opinions of experts on the matter, which includes comparison of such discriminatory acts against other institutions. To begin, she brings up an enlightening, yet controversial court case decision: Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin (2013). This court case demonstrates significance to this topic because it counteracts a previous court case, Grutter v. Bollinger (2003), which, “upheld diversity as a compelling interest that would justify narrowly

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In this article, the senator Bernie Sanders had a strong debate with the nominee to deputy by the president donald trump, russel Vought; about a post made by russel bought in 2016 implying that the Islamic community did not know Christ, and that's why they were going to be condemned. What Sanders considered discriminatory towards the Islamic community, and unleashed a long debate that had nothing to do with the current topic which was relevant to Russell's role in government. This discussion caused controversy because Senator Bernie Sanders was accused by some people of violating article IV of the constitution. This is a very complex issue because the statements made by Vought can be taken in many different ways because they are related to

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Is affirmative action still necessary for guaranteeing equal access to educational opportunities at elite universities and graduate schools? Should admissions decisions be based solely on academic criteria and merit? Key Words: affirmative action, Grutter V. Bollinger, and diversity. Grutter V. Bollinger Research Paper 3 Affirmative Action in Education Affirmative action was formed more than fifty years ago.

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In the year 2016, most people in the United States are accepting, and even appreciative of other cultures. In today’s school systems, though some schools are more diverse than others are, there is always a mix of students from different races and cultures. There are no “white schools”, “black schools”, “Chinese schools”, or schools that completely and openly segregate and are racist toward students of different cultures. However, it has not always been that way. On California’s west coast, in and around the year 1906, there was much bigotry toward the Chinese immigrants that lived in Chinatown.

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There is an unimportant place which might have some influence in the person I am today. I just do not now until what extend it inspired me, as I remember the place mainly from a nostalgic point of view. My father was, perhaps, the most influential with the histories he used to tell. Because I had visited and lived for a period of my life in the desert, I became fascinated by it. Mostly the red sands contrasting with the light blue sky and the heating waves which consume the vision.

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Public colleges and universities in the United States use a variety of factors to determine which students will be accepted. Universities often want a student body with diverse academic interests, talents, and backgrounds. They consider factors such as applicants’ grades, standardized test scores, community service, athletic or musical ability, and geographic location. Sometimes, universities also consider an applicant’s race or ethnicity. This case is about whether the University of Texas-Austin’s admissions policies violate the Fourteenth Amendment and its guarantee of equal protection.

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Students often leave high school with the mentality that they must enter a college. However, in the book, Is College Worth It?, by William J. Bennett and David Wilezol debates the positive and negative aspects of attending college. It is not known which was the first university to appear in the United States, but the most notorious college to be established in the 1600s was Harvard University. Since the 1600s, colleges have only been increasing in an abundant of states in the United States. Unfortunately, Bennett and Wilezol, first two chapters introduce the negative aspects of college; and, chapters three and four are universal arguments that go against each other.

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I was raised in a Roman Catholic household, however my parents never forced the idea of “Creationism” on me, they let me make the decision for myself and I simply followed what I had learned in school, which was that the universe was much older than 6,000 years. My biggest issue regarding Ken Hamm’s argument deals with the people he brought in to enhance his point particularly Dr. Raymond Damadian. Dr. Damadian is the inventor of the MRI, while his invention is an incredibly important part of science and medicine today, his opinion on the creation of earth is not related to the field he is in. Whether or not he is a Creationist does not impact his invention of the MRI. Hamm treated it as a lecture instead of a debate.

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“Affirmative Action may not be a perfect system, but there should be no doubt that it has endangered many successes. It has opened the doors of America’s most elite educational institutions to minority students, granting them unprecedented opportunities” (Ogletree 12). Thanks to Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson a policy that prohibits employment and education discrimination based on race, color, religion, national origin, and sex is offered today to those who suffer from said discriminations (A Brief History). Affirmative action has opened abundant openings for minorities, allowing the cycle of going to college to be passed down generations and provided job opportunities that otherwise would not be considered by most. Affirmative

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Asian American students are known to be excell in class with high grades and above average knowledge in certain subjects. They are “proclaimed as a model minority for academic excellence, affluence, strong work ethic, freedom from problems and crime, and family cohesion.” Asian American whose parents migrated from Asia are usually told to excel in their class and work in a high paying jobs usually doctors. Their parents would scold them if they uphold their expectation in order to build a strong work ethic where they would uphold those expectation throughout their lives later enforcing it to their future family while others believe to avoid racial differences start to “ride on the opposite of “stereotype threat,” a “stereotype promise” that they will be smart and hard-working” to uphold the current descriptions of Asian Americans and excel in their future. However, the parents of the students, usually those who migrated from Asia, tends to work much harder in low income jobs trying to adapt the new life and support their children to become part of today’s

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