Rachel, for an Asian, has many friends. Thats the kind of line that apparently is turning up more and more in letters of recommendation on behalf of Asian American applicants to top colleges, according to experts on a panel called Too Asian? at the annual meeting of the National Association for College Admission Counseling. Jon Reider, a counselor at University High School, in San Francisco, also said that the bias is real -- and cited his experience in his previous job as part of the admissions office at Stanford University. There, he said, the office did a study some years ago in which it compared Asian and white applicants with the same overall academic and leadership rankings. The study was only of unhooked kids, meaning those with no extra help for being an alumni child or an athlete. The study found that comparably qualified white applicants were significantly more likely to be admitted than their Asian counterparts.
Posted on: Sat, 27 Dec 2014 18:30:01 +0000
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