In this week’s Pope Center Clarion Call, Roger Clegg addresses the question of discrimination against Asian students. Of course, selective colleges don’t say, “We’re against those geeky, over-studious Asian kids. Let ‘em go somewhere else.” Rather, they don’t want to have “too many” of them, so as to have enough room for all the “under-represented” groups, whose students are presumed to add so much of interest to the student body. The result is the same: Some excellent students are rejected on account of their ancestry.
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George Leef is the director of external relations at the James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal. He is the author of The Awakening of Jennifer Van Arsdale: A Political Fable for Our Time.
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