Dear Fellow Asian Americans:
41,483 people have shown the courage of their conviction by taking the 80-20 EF Survey. We
need 9,000 more votes to show the
INTENSITY of your concerns. A 50,000 total would impress the Supreme Court, as few issues in the US can mobilize an equivalent 1 million people when projected to the general population (of which Asian Americans are 5%)
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YOU can do it by ensuring your spouse, youths, parents, friends, and colleagues all
VOTE. (Permanent residents and citizens only)
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NOW! Do Your Part to Improve our Destiny.
Is the racial preferences in college admission merely a “tie breaker”, a “nudge factor”, and “one in many” consideration?The “National Study of College Experience” (NSCE) project conducted over 9000 student interviews. Princeton sociologist Thomas Espenshade performed rigorous regression analysis on the vast NSCE database and released the empirical findings in his 2009 book [1], which was
widely cited by the news media:
To receive equal consideration by elite colleges, Asian Americans must outperform Whites by 140 points, Hispanics by 280 points, Blacks by 450 points in SAT (Total 1600). The result is not a simplistic test score comparison: The differences have been controlled for other variables such as sex, citizenship, athlete and legacy status, # of AP tests and SAT II test, GPA, class rank, National merit scholar status, and high school type.
We believe college admission policy should reflect the common American ideal of Equal Opportunity, afforded to every individual through the “
Equal Protection Clause” in the 14th Amendment of the US Constitution. The admission policy should not discriminate against any group of people for innate
collective characteristics, such as race and ethnicity, which an
individual can
NOT change. Instead, it should be firmly based on
individual merit, which is to be
broadly defined to include academic qualifications necessary for successful college learning, and personal character strengths such as perseverance, hardworking ethic, leadership skills, and individual initiative to
overcome adverse conditions, such as those imposed by socioeconomic status.
Race, ethnicity and national origin ar 6010 e
PROTECTED categories in the US constitution, for good reasons. In a job interview, if you ask a candidate’s race, you could be sued and your company could be investigated for racial discrimination under the “Equal Protection Clause”. Why is college admission so different? Not only the race question
MUST be asked, you
MUST answer
(or your last name would be Googled to determine your race), and your answer
MUST be used as the basis for differential treatment. Is this not
institutionalized reverse discrimination?
Furthermore, large racial preferences also
hurt the intended beneficiaries. It imposes an “
academic mismatch” among the admitted students, reducing the efficiency and quality of classroom instruction to all students, and leading to academically weaker students to self-segregate into less challenging classes, thereby
reducing classroom diversity [2]. The US Civil Right Commission issued a 2010 report about the disconcerting role of racial preferences played in undermining minority graduation in science and engineering programs [3]. In professions where universal qualification exams are required, such as legal service, higher numbers of
“racially preferred” students entering the law schools did not lead to an increased numbers of “racially preferred” lawyers because of the
high attrition rate [4]. Large racial preferences were also found to hurt the minority pipeline to academia [5].
It is time to do what every other developed nation does, which is
NOT to even askthe race question in college application.
Respectfully,
The 80-20 Collective Leadership
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