After the Supreme Court declared an end to the use of race criteria in college admissions, many administrators pledged to find a way around the decision. Schools are using essay prompts to flag race while rejecting the use of standardized testing to boost diversity in admissions. In the meantime, these schools are rejecting students with stellar credentials. The latest is Zach Yadegari, whose rejection by top schools offers an insight into the skewed criteria still in use for admissions.
Some schools, like the University of California system, previously abandoned standardized testing to boost minority admissions and make challenges more difficult. A few schools have since reversed the decision to restore academic standards. However, schools appear to be using race criteria in more subtle ways, like prompting applicants to discuss how they overcame such discrimination or bias in their essays.
An example of the curious standards is evident in the rejection of Yadegari by 15 of the 18 colleges.
Yadegari had stellar grades, with a score of 34 out of 36 on the ACT and a 4.0 GPA. More importantly, He built an app, Cal AI, which drew over five million downloads and $2 million in monthly revenue, according to TechCrunch. He went on to sell the app for $30 million.
That would seem a tad more impressive than the usual summer internship with Greenpeace or a donation drive found in applications.
However, he was rejected by Stanford, MIT, Harvard, Yale, WashU, Columbia UPenn, Princeton, Duke, USC, UVA, NYU, Vanderbilt, Brown, and Cornell.
Notably, Harvard has fought the hardest to preserve racial criteria for admissions. It recently had to start a remedial high school-level math course for its students.
As discussed on sites like College Fix, he is not unique. Take Stanley Zhong, a 19-year-old with a 4.42 GPA and nearly perfect SAT score. He was also rejected from 16 of the 18 colleges. He and his father are now suing the University of California system for discrimination against Asian-American applicants.
The Trump Administration could assist these students by forcing schools to make greater disclosures. Harvard and other universities have spent millions in litigation resisting such disclosures.
These administrators have shown that they will not yield on the use of race. In California, voters repeatedly voted against using race, and a task force supported using standardized testing in admissions. Yet, University of California President Janet Napolitano still eliminated the use of standardized tests, and, as shown by Zhong, top students are still inexplicably rejected.
If these cases reflect the current criteria, the public and donors must do more to return our universities and colleges to a greater emphasis on scholastic credentials. This culture will not change without a substantial change in the administrators and staff at these schools.
# Harvard as an example has been occupied not for education but for the 53 billion endowment.
These schools are seriously damaging to youths and should be avoided. Stop all public funding and regard student visa apps , rein in participation in these schools. The instructors of good report will soon be gone. Nothing there.
In the world of athletics competition and excellence is celebrated. Perhaps the fact that the black race dominates in many athletic fields is a factor? I assume the playing fields are more level because of this, because it suits their agendas.
When Colleges and Universities put their thumb on the scales denying the best of the best access to academic programs that would allow them to excel to their highest potential they do our nation no favors. It is from the geniuses and over achievers the capitalist system thrives and all citizens ultimately prosper.
All government funding should be stripped from these higher education offenders until this discrimination is certifiably eliminated by intentional reversal of current practices. I see that alumni donors are also holding back due to this kind of discrimination. I hope this becomes contagious among all donor classes.
I stopped donating annually to my alma mater, U.C. Berkeley, when they started renaming buildings after various liberal idiots. The United States underwent its fastest development relative to other nations when there were no public schools. We need to get back to that system: no one is taxed for funding education, and everyone can buy and appreciate whatever education he/she/it wants. Some day a nation will pattern itself after the constitution in Rock Pig’s Word from Future, and the next great advance in civilization will be realized.
Likewise, I cut off all donations to the University of Michigan which has become not only DEI central, but a hotbed of anti-Semitism. At one time, the university was one of the top in the nation for educating its students in Math, Science, Business, Law, Medicine, the arts, etc. and now it is completely unrecognizable. The bulk of the “research” emanating from the school is in DEI and wokeness, creating a generation of leftist drones. They can go pound sand!
Trump needs to defund and sue these Marxist institutions into oblivion