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Tag Archives: college admissions
The College Admissions Game, Part 2: Race and School Selection
“I don’t want to go there – it’s too Asian!” That is the last thing I wanted to hear from the Daughter. Doesn’t she know I write for a blog on Asian American issues, and now she is going all … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Family, Local, San Francisco Bay Area
Tagged college admissions, Silicon Valley
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The College Admissions Game, Part 1: Picking Schools
As we prepared to leave The Daughter to start her freshman year of college, she started crying. The Wife started crying also. I was mostly numb as I wondered, how did we get to this point? Is this the culmination … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Family, Lifestyles
Tagged college admissions, High School Admissions, Naviance, Silicon Valley
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When Strict Parenting Becomes An Educational Hindrance
Every summer, I coach volleyball at a sports clinic at my children’s school. Over the years, I noticed a Vietnamese boy in Number One Son’s class who would attend the sports clinic but never played on any of the school … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Family, Lifestyles
Tagged college admissions, Vietnamese, volleyball
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UC Admissions Policy Change and Asian-Americans: Controversy over Simulations
“Dad, I have to sign up for the SAT II tests!” The Daughter was annoyed that she still had to take the SAT subjects tests (formerly known as the SAT II tests), as the University of California’s elimination of the … Continue reading
KQED Radio Forum: Do Universities Discriminate Against Asian-Americans?
KQED Radio recently had a forum on whether Universities discriminate against Asian-Americans. The forum had people on different sides of the debate, including: Angela Suh Um, founder and chief consultant with the Boston Academic Consulting Group and former employee in … Continue reading
Posted in Current Events, Discrimination, Education
Tagged college admissions, diversity, University of California
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University Admissions: How many Asian-Americans are too many?
How many Asian-Americans are too many? That’s one of the key questions that I see coming out of the Boston Globe‘s op-ed piece “Do Colleges Redline Asian-Americans?” I’ve talked before about the Princeton study cited in the article, which says … Continue reading
Posted in Discrimination, Education, Observations
Tagged college admissions, diversity, intercultural skills, ucla
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