[Google234]

This will definitely help make it easier for admissions to discriminate against Asian students.

[refraincomment]

From a business perspective it must be more lucrative to select candidates by their cultural projection and the money connections than on the basis of academic potential.

I suppose that is true for MIT, for mainstream media, and for US corporations.

[refraincomment]

We can compare the audience of an flamewar post about racism in US, vs the readership of a paper on fixed point theorems, and it makes sense that organizations that don't care about science like US universities choose to favor the former.

[tzs]

MIT undergraduates in the class of 2024 are 42% Asian. White is 39%. What makes you think MIT discriminates against Asian students?

[underpand]

It's low compared to some base rates.

60% of 750 - 800 math SAT scorers are Asian

https://i0.wp.com/www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/...

I looked through the list of USAMO finalists in recent years and > 80% have Asian surnames.

[chaps]

Out of ignorance - how so?

[adpirz]

https://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=171