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Sunday, February 02, 2003 On Diversity at Universities From the New York Times: Asian Students: Not All of Them Are Pre-Med Violinists. No kidding. According to the article, at Brown University it's easier to get in as a white student than as an Asian. We're the only minority that doesn't get any slack.... An excerpt from The New Calculus of Diversity on Campus: When, for example, it [the University of Michigan Law School] assembled its class for the fall of 1999, the law school accepted only one of the 61 Asian-Americans, or 2 percent, who were ranked in the middle range of the applicant pool, as defined by their grades and test scores.... The admission rate for whites with similar grades and scores was 3 percent. But among black applicants with similar transcripts, 22 out of 27, or 81 percent, were offered admission.... Though supportive of affirmative action for black and Hispanic applicants in particular, Evelyn Hu-DeHart, a professor of history and ethnic studies at Brown, said she took offense at the perception that there might be a threshold for how many Asians on a campus was too many. "I'll tell you what is discriminatory in the case of Texas," said Ms. Hu-DeHart.... "They don't say whites are overrepresented. They're pitting Asian-Americans against blacks and Latinos by saying Asian-Americans are taking your place." ^ Top | 2:49 PM | | | 
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