[grandinj]

What makes you think that? Stereotyping perhaps?

In the case of Jews, they can hardly be called unambitious given the number of writers and scientists they produced.

In the case of Asians, ambitious engineering, scientific and business persons do not seem to be short supply.

[paidleaf]

> What makes you think that? Stereotyping perhaps?

Look at the quasi racist stuff this guy wrote. He obviously doesn't like asians for some reason.

"Harvard and the other Ivies don't want to keep out asian people. They want to keep out boring, myopic applicants who spend all day studying to achieve the grades and scores they have and show little sign of interest in contributing to the outside world beyond getting a well-paying job as a lawyer or doctor and raising a family comfortably."

The guy claims to have been an admissions officer at an ivy league school. Doesn't seem likely.

[brians]

I've had an admissions officer at MIT scream at me--handing out leaflets at a protest--that MIT "doesn't admit people like me any more." I think he meant to communicate that they were aiming at more complacent people who would participate on the rails--as admissions officers of his era imagined Millenials to be. "Whoops"

He's out of admissions and lecturing physics at U Kentucky now, which seems a fair result. But anyway, these groups hire bozos to do the low-tier work. The heads of admissions are usually fantastic, but the clerks are lower quality than average because of supply issues.

[IvyAdmisions]

Just remember that the heads of admissions are the ones coming up with these policies (in tandem with other university leaders) and personally reviewing all the applicants in the end to make sure they're carried out.

[jessaustin]

I think he might have fit in at Dartmouth?

[echion]

Fighting stereotypical prejudice with...a stereotype? Dartmouth is around the mean in Asian-American student body according to https://blog.collegevine.com/the-demographics-of-the-ivy-lea... .

[jessaustin]

"Not Asian" was not the stereotype invoked above.

17% < 19.6%, as if it matters.