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I want to highlight the human cost here — real kids sacrificed much of their childhoods to checklists, resume items, and test culture to be what they were told was demanded; to reject them either on the basis of their ethnicity or what they were made to sacrifice is true crueltyhttps://twitter.com/webdevMason/status/1306743625112379394 …
FWIW, I think these admissions criteria need a significant overhaul to permit kids to be kids, pursue their own interests beyond soundbite resume items and reduce pressure that cuts against self-exploration in early life. But don't punish kids who do what you told them to do.
Am I afraid of a Harvard that is 43% Asian, the suggested outcome of no legacy admissions and no adjustments for "personality traits"? No. I'm not. Why would I be? I'm far more afraid of a Harvard that incentivizes unnecessarily grueling and homogenous childhoods.
But, then - Harvard sucks anyway.
It's the part after the 'or' that that's the real clincher. Special irony in it. Asian scholastic accomplishment is discounted precisely because of the hard work that underlies it. They don't do it easily enough.
This does seem like a weirdly common moral intuition, though - I remember classmates in high school who would make fun of "tryhards"
*Me an Indian seeing Americans react to ills of Affirmative Action in shock while India having straight up 50% reservations at nearly all govt institutions, even when Ambedkar said keep reservation just for 10 years (1960), but he totally forgot to account for political economy*pic.twitter.com/sYvkrc0fVd
Alas! They end up at UCI, the back up school. In the end the most successful people will be the ones who know how to bounce back from being knocked down, so maybe shitty Harvard is doing them a favor. The whole admissions process is a joke anyways.
Wow is this direct racial oppression!
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