tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post2551716367347911718..comments2024-03-15T20:52:26.967-07:00Comments on Steve Sailer: iSteve: What the University of California is up toUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger56125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-59439948873428321942011-01-18T08:31:51.861-08:002011-01-18T08:31:51.861-08:00Anonymous:
"Higher education is as much ab...Anonymous: <br /><br />"Higher education is as much about high intelligence as hard work, and it is clear at UC Berkeley that lower IQ Asian grade grubbers are displacing smarter whites who don't sign up for AP classes in HS. " <br /><br />First of all, how do you know these "Asian grade grubbers" have lower IQs than whites? Because in your white supremacist mind whites are the smartest? Hah. The SATs do not back up your assertions. And second of all, don't you have to put in more work in an AP class as opposed to a regular class? So by your own definition, Asians are the best-suited for higher education, since they have both higher intelligence and works harder, something that cannot be said about you because of your lack of logic and the inability to back up your statements. <br /><br />As for "Asian grade grubbers," hey, don't hate the player, hate the game. And if you are not smart enough to game the game, then mau mau some more to people who cares, oh, wait, I thought whites do not like mau maus. Hah, white supremacists crack me up.Jayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08982241850396412929noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-40738555621054983562009-08-23T19:07:03.623-07:002009-08-23T19:07:03.623-07:00...[East Asians] play the musical instruments and ...<i>...[East Asians] play the musical instruments and music of White Europeans....</i><br /><br />I thought Asians only sat around ruminating on their homework problems, at least according to you.DAJnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-7785624044155397152009-08-22T10:59:17.397-07:002009-08-22T10:59:17.397-07:00One of the ideas behind having students take three...<i>One of the ideas behind having students take three SAT Subject exams is that one can be a foreign language, which makes it a gimme putt for immigrants.</i><br /><br />Not true. I'm not a Spanish teacher, but share the same students with a few, in a middle school. I'm surprised every year by the number of Hispanic/Latino students who fail Spanish. Being able to speak a language has nothing to do with the ability to dissect it, analyze it, write it coherently...Once they discover that they are not going to be allowed to just skate, but are actually expected to identify the correct verb tense, etc., they fold. Another common thread is hatred of the Spanish teachers, for having the temerity to expect them to work.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-40250217525136017262009-08-21T09:58:55.640-07:002009-08-21T09:58:55.640-07:00I made a typo. I meant 5 NE Asians won Nobel Prize...I made a typo. I meant 5 NE Asians won Nobel Prizes, not 6. But it's still 10.63%.MacSweeneynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-25332347449427943232009-08-21T07:22:41.301-07:002009-08-21T07:22:41.301-07:00"Assuming the SAT equality you raise, why are..."Assuming the SAT equality you raise, why are you ignoring both the GPA and SAT Subject Tests where Asians outperform whites?"<br /><br />The SAT I was originally created to calibrate GPA. Used in this way, the difference between whites and Asians more or less vanishes. Asians are obsessed with the appearance of success rather than actual proficiency. As for whites being lazy, well, they do things other than sitting around doing homework problems by the "infinite book method." They're active in sports, they volunteer in the community, they build stuff (check out YouTube for how many ways there are to build a tennis ball cannon), they read extensively following their own interests, they use their imagination -- mainly because they have one. Asians don't have much of a track record for inventing paradigm shifting things or theories. They are good at gaming the system. Not inventing the system.<br /><br />"Like IQ, behavior traits are beginning to be found to have some genetic heritability. If Asians have evolved to have behavioral genetics slightly better suited for mainstream success in an advanced globalized information society (less violent, more diligent, more focused, more competitive, etc) that would be unfair"<br /><br />Asians are good at following orders; they are money driven conformists and natural born bureaucrats. Meanwhile they dress in the clothes of White Europeans, play the musical instruments and music of White Europeans, use the science, medicine, and inventions of White Europeans. Even the economic systems they adopt to get rich are Western. Whites are the R&D race (they invented pretty much everything related to the information age)because of their individualism, imagination, and high intelligence. What little advantage Asians have is in the area of spatial reasoning. Their verbal reasoning is somewhat the worse for this.<br /><br />It's funny how, on the one hand, you are claiming Chinese have some genetic advantage, then admit that China is looking to Western Universities to figure out how to become world class. The best way to become world class is to have world class intellectuals. In fact many Chinese Universities are hiring some of the best white scholars, who focus on groundbreaking research, while the Chinese focus on playing the academic career game and diligently publishing what's known in academic circles as the "minimum publishable unit."<br /><br />I advocate White nationalism because it is globally beneficial. Unless whites of European ancestry are allowed their independence and self governance, the ability to profit from their own labors and follow their own traditions, well, you can expect the advancement of global civilization to grind to a halt. Under the Chinese, we can all anticipate a return to authoritarian rule, the reinstitution of slavery, and technological stagnation that could last a millennia.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-12814547437886142802009-08-21T06:47:25.330-07:002009-08-21T06:47:25.330-07:00If anything, considering the underperformance of A...<i>If anything, considering the underperformance of Asians on measures like winning major academic prizes and being highly cited, influential, and innovative researchers and academics, reducing the number of Asian students and faculty might actually boost an institution in these rankings.</i><br /><br />When you make a statement like this, cite some evidence. I on the other hand, have some evidence to the contrary:<br /><br />In the last 15 years, the United States has won 47 Nobel Prizes in Physics and Chemistry. Of these, 6 were Northeast Asians. That would be 10.63%. Over representation.MacSweeneynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-4027436023515861902009-08-20T23:35:24.018-07:002009-08-20T23:35:24.018-07:00Nonsense Anon
Assuming the SAT equality you raise...Nonsense Anon<br /><br />Assuming the SAT equality you raise, why are you ignoring both the GPA and SAT Subject Tests where Asians outperform whites? Why do you think a lazy white guy who avoids the most challenging (AP) courses in HS (or has a lower GPA for other reasons such as a poor work ethic, low-motivation or unfocused efforts) should have an equal shot at UCB as an asian who is equally natively intelligent (IQ) but works much harder to successfully cultivate it to accomplish much more? Given the higher motivation and gamesmanship of asians in admissions, we can probably also assume asians generally have more impressive applications regarding factors such as leadership, extracurricular, volunteerism, etc. <br /><br />If you answer that whites should be preferred over equally intelligent but harder working, more organized, more focused and more accomplished asians simply because they are white at least you’re being a logically consistent white nationalist. You’re just arguing for an affirmative action handout to help weaker average white applicants who are then generally less likely to graduate college, more likely to party while studying some BS subject and in general be a poorer risk for society to invest in overall. The handful of truly brilliant whites or whatever get into a decent unis and advance society, but we’re talking about the more replaceable averages that make up the bulk of UC or other elite college admits.<br /><br />Like IQ, behavior traits are beginning to be found to have some genetic heritability. If Asians have evolved to have behavioral genetics slightly better suited for mainstream success in an advanced globalized information society (less violent, more diligent, more focused, more competitive, etc) that would be unfair and all the more reason government must be grown and empowered to redress such moral injustices. No my comrade, we must struggle for the strict blank slate maxim of “from each according to their willingness, to each according to their ethnic societal proportion” because anything less is either institutional racism or a toxic remnant from European colonialism.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-35883988638256536392009-08-20T20:24:51.998-07:002009-08-20T20:24:51.998-07:00"It is widely known the standards are higher ..."It is widely known the standards are higher for asians at UC and other elite universities just as they are lower for NAMs due to the hugely disproportionate asian representation among the most qualified applicants."<br /><br />Nonsense. Like I said, even controlling for SAT scores, Asians are way overrepresented in the UC system. They are clearly getting more than their fair share of a public university that was built by whites, has a mostly white faculty, and floats mainly on white taxpayer dollars. Asians make up only 14% of the population but get nearly half the total admission slots to UCB. Based on IQ the white student population in California eligible for UC is more than double the Asian population. Yet Asians have them outnumbered at UCB by 5:3. That means they are overrepresented by a factor of 3. That pretty much proves my point that higher IQ whites are being displaced by lower IQ Asians given that whites apply to UC at about the same rate as Asians. So don't give me this whiny nonsense that Asians are discriminated against.<br /><br />Feel free to attend Jiao Tong University and raise it to the same eminence as UC.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-420471833141024052009-08-20T19:51:02.985-07:002009-08-20T19:51:02.985-07:00Accused Pro-Asian Anon
You can find more info on ...Accused Pro-Asian Anon<br /><br />You can find more info on the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academic_Ranking_of_World_Universities" rel="nofollow">Academic Ranking of World Universities</a> by Jiao Tong University. Bollag (2006) wrote on Chronicle of Higher Education that ARWU “is considered the most influential international ranking”. As the wikipedia article relates, the authors designed the ranking was “to find out the gap between Chinese universities and world-class universities, particularly in terms of academic or research performance” (not to make Asian Universities or high % Asian US universities look good as someone suggested here).<br /><br />It is widely known the standards are higher for asians at UC and other elite universities just as they are lower for NAMs due to the hugely disproportionate asian representation among the most qualified applicants. Even with the high overrepresentation of asians at UC and other elite universities, the diversicrats are not sitting on their hands but are doing all they can to hold the line and pull them down regardless of merit. One of the less covert strategies is to openly drop the SAT Achievement Test despite it being a valuable measure of motivation, preparation and predictor of success in college.<br /><br />The attempts by UC and other elite colleges (where the best qualifed asians disproportionally apply) to supress the number of asian admitted is a practice that goes back at least 30 years. <br /><br />In the mid-80s these practices were becoming so egregious they were no longer in doubt (despite the usual silence and partyline denials) and precipatated a reaction by some asian-americans. In 1989, <a href="http://www.heritage.org/research/politicalphilosophy/hl216.cfm" rel="nofollow">CA rep Dana Rohrabacher opined on the widespread practice of anti-asian discrimmination in a Heritage Foundation lecture</a> stating:<br /><br />“The more they investigated the problem, the more information they uncovered that seems to suggest that there is a conscious effort by some of our finest institutions of higher learning to limit the number of their Asian students. At the University of California at Los Angeles, an internal memo from the Director of Admissions said the campus "will endeavor to curb the decline of Caucasian students.” The memo went on to predict that Asian-Americans would begin to express concern as their numbers declined. At Harvard University, 12 percent of Asian-American applicants are admitted contrasted with an overall admissions rate of 15.2 percent, despite the fact that Asian-Americans average higher grades and SAT scores than other students - 112 points higher in 1982. Admitting Discrimination. Amid complaints from Asian-Americans, the University of California at Berkeley initiated an internal study to determine whether bias against Asian applicants existed. Chancellor Heyman later admitted the school's policies caused a decline in Asian-American undergraduate enrollment stating, "It is clear that decisions made in the admissions process indisputably had a disproportionate impact on Asians." That is academic gobbledygook for: "We discriminated." Brown and Stanford Universities have conducted internal studies showing the percentages of Asian-American students accepted have remained roughly the same, even though the number of highly qualified from Asian-American applicants has risen dramatically…<br /><br />For example, since the beginning of major publicity on this issue in November 1988, Harvard has announced that its next freshman class, the one entering this month, will be 15 percent Asian - the highest rate in Harvard's history. Stanford announced that their September 1989 entering class was over 18 percent Asian - their highest ever. UCLA announced that an Asian-American professor who had published data critical of - universities' Asian admission policies, and who had to fight for three years, has finally received tenure. And UC Berkeley has apologized to the Asian community for their past admissions practices…”Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-47916885200282269052009-08-20T19:50:27.606-07:002009-08-20T19:50:27.606-07:00Melykin: The performance of many Asian undergrads ...Melykin: The performance of many Asian undergrads at UCB, especially in courses that require English fluency and verbal analytic skills, IS a scandal. As Steve has pointed out, Asians don't score any better on AP tests than whites, they just take more AP courses -- which lifts their GPA because such courses are graded on a 1-5 instead of a 1-4 scale. And taking the actual AP test is optional; most don't bother.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-47059695288910159142009-08-20T19:36:17.494-07:002009-08-20T19:36:17.494-07:00Oops, that was supposed to say NOT much more ethni...Oops, that was supposed to say NOT much more ethnically diverse.Austin MDnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-66641601729803206832009-08-20T19:34:38.578-07:002009-08-20T19:34:38.578-07:00Whenever I hear 'Cruz Bustamante' I giggle...Whenever I hear 'Cruz Bustamante' I giggle like the hyenas in the Lion King when they heard the name 'Moofasa'.<br /><br />"Cruuuuuuuize BoooosssTaManTae"<br />*giggle*Evil Sandmichhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06094558583013380137noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-81772160957541477052009-08-20T18:06:07.169-07:002009-08-20T18:06:07.169-07:00As the college classmate and father referenced in ...As the college classmate and father referenced in the original post, I just want to clarify a couple of points:<br /><br />1. The UT policy applies in Texas (meaningfully, anyway) only to UT-Austin. Students who fail the top 10% but are desired otherwise are admitted if they go to summer school first or get admitted to other UT campuses (San Antonio, for example) and transfer to Austin in their sophomore year. Interestingly, the policy applies to A&M as well, but it is not an issue de facto because - well, draw your own conclusions.<br /><br />2. The rule has just been changed and now only controls 75% of admissions, starting in 2011 - too late for my kid.<br /><br />I'm ambivalent about the whole thing. Most of us on this site want no affirmative action, but that is somewhat less likely than the deportation of all of the illegal aliens in the country. At least this sort of policy is not race-based and has some justification. Kids like my daughter get great schools and advisors, SAT prep, and take the exam multiple times, while the kid across town gets none of that. The achievement of the top 10% in a bad environment, whether ghetto or rural or whatever, has some relevance, I think. So if you have to have affirmative action of some kind, this one is at least based on an affirmative achievement. I don't have a better idea.<br /><br />UT publishes ongoing updates comparing GPA compared to SAT scores of kids admitted under the 10% rule who to kids who come in as sophomores as I described and other groups, and they seem to do well (and are only, interestingly, only very more ethnically diverse). I think the graduation rates are the same, too, but I'm too lazy to look it up. The latest update is at http://www.utexas.edu/student/admissions/research/CAPreport-CAP06.pdf. This may be a biased report, as it appears to lump the most brilliant kids in with those who wouldn't have gotten in without the rule, but I don't have the time and statistical skills to give this the analysis it deserves: Steve, have at it!<br /><br />And do come visit Austin: your family is welcome any time.Austin MDnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-43797132701235411182009-08-20T17:51:09.090-07:002009-08-20T17:51:09.090-07:00Anonymous wrote:
"Higher education is as muc...Anonymous wrote:<br /><i> "Higher education is as much about high intelligence as hard work, and it is clear at UC Berkeley that lower IQ Asian grade grubbers are displacing smarter whites who don't sign up for AP classes in HS. Ugh, some of the papers they write in humanities classes are just incoherent nonsense. It really is a scandal." </i><br />---------------------<br /><br />I'd be careful about saying this sort of thing. If the Asian students obtained higher grades on the AP exams through any honest means then they deserve the grades and the places in university they win. Of course if English is not their mother tongue then they must also pass tests in English.<br /><br />Maybe non-Asian minorities (NAMs?) use this type of thinking to justify their low grades compared to whites.Melykinnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-81147380539833744802009-08-20T14:17:12.336-07:002009-08-20T14:17:12.336-07:00From the linked L. A. Times article:
The theory ...From the linked L. A. Times article: <br /><br /><i>The theory is that this will guarantee more spots for students at underperforming high schools where opportunities are not as great and more of the students are underrepresented minorities.</i><br /><br />Notice how in L.A. Times World, it's the high schools that are "underperforming," and not the students. Especially not the "underrepresented minorities."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-80950874234254000252009-08-20T12:59:55.346-07:002009-08-20T12:59:55.346-07:00Pro-Asian American Anonymous (can you creative typ...Pro-Asian American Anonymous (can you creative types come up with some SN, sheesh)<br /><br />I do not think Steve resents Asians too much (at least when it comes to this college admission thing) and I am sure his kid can compete with the best of em.<br /><br />That being said, while the UC system is arguably the best public higher education system in the US, there are so many good private and public colleges in the country. I doubt not attending a UC will ruin your son's chances in life Steve.<br /><br />Also why did they open up another UC campus? Don't you guys have enough of em?Pissed Off Chinamannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-54317521258887648412009-08-20T11:39:08.654-07:002009-08-20T11:39:08.654-07:00"one Shanghai University ranks UC universitie..."one Shanghai University ranks UC universities near the very top of the world:"<br /><br />So? Who cares what one university says about another. What metrics were applied? I can tell you one of the metrics: the East Asian fraction of the student body. UC is good, maybe even world class, but in the US it's top 20, not top 3. Pure ethnic hubris on the part of the commenter. As for the new admissions policy being white AA, why not? Asians are heavily overrepresented and whites heavily underrepresented, even after controlling for SAT scores. Higher education is as much about high intelligence as hard work, and it is clear at UC Berkeley that lower IQ Asian grade grubbers are displacing smarter whites who don't sign up for AP classes in HS. Ugh, some of the papers they write in humanities classes are just incoherent nonsense. It really is a scandal.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-47758974523438153442009-08-20T11:33:50.390-07:002009-08-20T11:33:50.390-07:00"You can see this effect already in how one S..."You can see this effect already in how one Shanghai University ranks UC universities near the very top of the world: UC Berkeley is #3 (after Harvard and Stanford) and UC schools make up 20% of the top 20 universities worldwide."<br /><br />The Shanghai rankings have nothing to do with this imaginary effect. <br /><br />In the first place, how could we "see this effect already" when the cause you attribute to it hasn't even been implemented yet? <br /><br />Secondly, look at the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academic_Ranking_of_World_Universities" rel="nofollow">methodology of the Shanghai rankings:</a> "The ranking compared 1200 higher education institutions worldwide according to a formula that took into account alumni winning Nobel Prizes and Fields Medals (10 percent), staff winning Nobel Prizes and Fields Medals (20 percent), “highly-cited researchers in 21 broad subject categories” (20 percent), articles published in Nature and Science (20 percent), the Science Citation Index and Social Sciences Citation Index (20 percent) and the per capita academic performance (on the indicators above) of an institution (10 percent).<br /><br />If anything, considering the underperformance of Asians on measures like winning major academic prizes and being highly cited, influential, and innovative researchers and academics, reducing the number of Asian students and faculty might actually boost an institution in these rankings. At the very least, we can see that Berkeley and the UC schools' high placement in these rankings has little to do with your idea that the "UC Asian is much brighter and capable than other UC graduate."Montananoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-10805578260982595422009-08-20T11:24:47.569-07:002009-08-20T11:24:47.569-07:00Some Texas districts yet to change grading policie...Some Texas districts yet to change grading policies<br /><br />07:01 AM CDT on Tuesday, August 18, 2009<br /><br />kunmuth@dallasnews.com<br /><br />A new state law aims to stop school district policies that bar teachers from giving students grades lower than a 50, a 60 or even a 70.<br /><br />But with less than a week before fall classes begin, some districts aren't ready to change their policies.<br /><br />Dallas ISD officials say that because the law doesn't specifically mention report card grades, district policy remains that teachers may not assign a grade lower than a 50 on six-week grades.<br /><br />"Districts need to give accurate grades to students, and that includes report card grades," said TEA spokeswoman Debbie Graves Ratcliffe. "It's pretty simple, give the grade students earned and stick with that."<br /><br />Dallas school district spokesman Jon Dahlander said the language in the bill does not address low report card grades.<br /><br />"Our interpretation is that our policies do not need to be changed," he said. "The language of the bill is very specific to teachers' grades on assignments and does not address the lowest grade appearing on a report card."<br /><br />Fort Worth school officials aren't yet changing their policy that sets 50 as the lowest six-week grade. But they say they will convene teachers' committees to re-examine their current grading policies."<br /><br />http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/latestnews/stories/081809dnmetgradingchanges.3d76d47.html<br /><br />------------<br /><br />Notice the determination of school officials to avoid assigning accurate assessments of student performance.read ithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00631238731651674916noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-8650641787778326672009-08-20T08:11:22.555-07:002009-08-20T08:11:22.555-07:00"Back in the early 80's my sister got in ..."Back in the early 80's my sister got in on the top 10% rule but many majors weren't open to her. I was not in the top 10% but got accepted into the engineering program on SAT score."<br /><br />A high SAT score will no longer guarantee you even basic admissions, and has not for about 10 years. I don't doubt Business and Engineering and Nursing still have even more stringent requirements, but now your SAT score might not even get you in. There have been NUMEROUS cases of people with high SAT scores NOT getting in. That is the controversy. Before the top 10 percent rule, which came into effect as state policy in the late 1990s in response to Hopwood, people were admitted under a matrix of class rank and SAT. If your class rank was high you could have a lower SAT score and vice versa (back in the mid 1990s at least you did have to have some minimal score for automatic admit). The top ten percent rule, which, again, was implemented in the late 1990s, meant you didn't even need that.Annnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-79838398904549757402009-08-20T08:07:37.701-07:002009-08-20T08:07:37.701-07:00pretty much all the academic skills you're gon...<i>pretty much all the academic skills you're gonna have, you get before the age of 15. I took the SAT my freshman year(for fun)and junior year in high school; the scores were statistically identical.</i> <br /><br />I took the (old) SAT twice as well. I think once as a junior and once as a senior. My score was 110 points higher the second time 'round.Svigorhttp://majorityrights.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-30443031797193442102009-08-20T07:35:34.788-07:002009-08-20T07:35:34.788-07:00Pretty lame reasoning here Steve. I'm not sur...Pretty lame reasoning here Steve. I'm not sure if it's because you're fishing for comments or blinded by the anti-asian resentment engendered by having a white son about to enter the college application fray in CA.<br /><br />An earlier post of yours stated that NE Asians UC applicants outperformed Whites in the SAT subject tests (measure of motivation and preparation) but were about equal in the SAT exam itself (measure of general intelligence g). Motivation and general intelligence are the two dominate factors for predicting success in college.<br /><br />By eliminating the SAT subject test, the UC system will obviously hurt Asians who top this meaningful metric. The primary beneficiaries will be whites who will suddenly appear equally academically competitive based on an ever diminishing set of objective criteria.<br /><br />This is an affirmative action handout for whites at the expense of asians no different than the handout blacks/hispanics receive at the cost to whites/asians. In the latter all academic standards are lowered to boost NAM percentages and in the former the valuable predictive metric of motivation/preparation in the SAT Ach Tests are thrown out to depress asian acceptance rates to benefit whites. So much for a merit-based society that rewards individual talent and effort.<br /><br />Why toss out the two red herringsat at the end of your post? Why do you suggest only asians can remember the SAT Ach Test deadline? Is it asian's higher IQ that gives them better future time orientation than those impulsive low-IQ whites? Why do you suggest that NE Asians may be flexing their special interest lobby muscles when you know they lack both the numbers and such mau mauing goes against the strategy, character and history of the NE Asians who head such organizations? Have you ever seen a pattern of such mau mauing by NE Asians. The few that care just ride on the traditional NAM AA crusades to the detriment of asians.<br /><br />It will be interesting to watch the long-term effects this double reverse racism asians face at UC schools and in the US in general. The operating assumption will be that any UC Asian is much brighter and capable than other UC graduate. You can see this effect already in how <a href="http://www.arwu.org/rank/2007/ARWU2007_Top100.htm" rel="nofollow">one Shanghai University ranks UC universities near the very top of the world</a>: UC Berkeley is #3 (after Harvard and Stanford) and UC schools make up 20% of the top 20 universities worldwide.<br /><br />As hard as you son has it in his UC college applications, have a little pity for the even more systematically screwed over american-born asians. These schmucks suffer even greater reverse discrimination and have to directly compete against the top parachute kids from China's 1.3b population (and elsewhere in Asia).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-62384016894128639712009-08-20T07:10:50.336-07:002009-08-20T07:10:50.336-07:00"UT's solution to the problem was to simp..."UT's solution to the problem was to simply admit everybody. Besides Top10 and very lenient transfer programs, until recently the school admitted every in-state applicant meeting some arbitrary, not-too-high SAT cut off(~1320, last i heard)<br /><br />Isn't a 1320 (out of the old 1600) close to what black students at Harvard average? 1320 is only reasonably discriminating in white and Asian students, but that's a pretty big barrier for NAMs."<br /><br />The statewide average SAT score in California is 1500 out of 2400. <br /><br />http://www.ed-data.k12.ca.us/Accountability/highschoolreports.asp?reportNumber=1&tab=3&fyr=0708&county=00&district=00000&school=#satresults<br /><br /> I get so confused now that they changed from 1600 to 2400 because I never know what is being referred to.<br /><br /><br />Anyway 1350 out of 1600 is about the 84%tile.<br /><br />1350 out of 2400 is about the 32%tile.<br /><br />http://professionals.collegeboard.com/data-reports-research/sat/data-tablesAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-76936460544191238862009-08-20T07:00:44.851-07:002009-08-20T07:00:44.851-07:00"Frankly, in another 10 or 15 years, most of ..."Frankly, in another 10 or 15 years, most of the admissions to the UC system will be incapable of passing remedial English or remedial Mathematics."<br /><br />The coming Latino majority will generate insufficient tax revenue to support the current UC and Cal State systems. And what state money there is will be chiefly directed to welfare, public housing, law enforcement, prisons, and daycare (public schools).<br /><br />I have often pointed out to my professorial friends that to celebrate diversity is to invite irrelevance in a NAM dominated society with no intellectual curiosity. Already, we see the Obama administration hobbling the NASA budget, killing off any hope of a US manned mission to Mars -- probably forever. But that was only a high IQ, white science nerd aspiration anyway, celebrated in the imaginations of 1960’s White America. <br /><br />The way I see it UC will need to close about half its campuses and cut way back on fluff academic departments which don't bring in much federal or private grant money. The state colleges will need to concentrate on occupational training along the lines of the DeVry Institute or the community colleges. UC's raison d'etre was strongly tied to the European immigrant dream of social mobility through higher education. But Latinos are a backward caste, who will become increasingly downwardly mobile as more of them compete for a diminishing number of low skill jobs.<br /><br />Case in point. I’ve lived in Berkeley for 16 years. During that time, I have occasionally visited a certain corner market, always owned by Koreans. In 1993, two Hispanic teenage girls were employed to work in the deli. Since that time, the store has changed owners three times. The girls are in their early 30’s, still working at the deli counter, but now they each have three kids apiece. The ones in middle school sometime stop by the store. They barely speak English. What future is there for them but to follow mami’s footsteps into the sandwich assembly trade?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-51094738567485431162009-08-19T23:13:30.435-07:002009-08-19T23:13:30.435-07:00... the UC system has about a 1000 open spots each...<i> ... the UC system has about a 1000 open spots each year it can't seem to fill at its new UC Merced campus that Cruz Bustamante had located out in the middle of Damn All</i> ....<br />The lovely <a href="http://www.technologyreview.com/TR35/Profile.aspx?Cand=T&TRID=764" rel="nofollow"> Michelle Khine </a> found herself at the UC Merced campus in 2006 to manage her first biomedical lab. She wanted to develop chip based <a href="http://www.futurepundit.com/archives/005730.html" rel="nofollow"> microfluidic diagnostic chips</a>, but had no funding. Instead she used her childhood experiences painting and then cooking 'Shrinky Dink' material to design and cheaply make her own microfluidic diagnostic chips using AutoCAD, a laser printer, and a paper-like plastic. Well, the rest is microfluidics history, since labs everywhere are adapting Michelle's microfluidic prototyping technique. This year Michelle Khine is among Technology Review's TR 35 Young Innovators for 2009. However, Professor Khine was unavailable to welcome America's first Michelle at UC Merced's graduation last Junes as a UC Merced biomedical researcher, since she had left to accept an attractive offer from UC Irvine months before.Toadalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02710674512538267656noreply@blogger.com