Otherwise known as Asian-Americans but now tagged with a New Left term because although they’re educationally and economically more successful than the White Privileged people, they can’t be smacked with that term because of the whole skin colour-ethnicity thing, while at the same time being increasingly another group of Official Bad People as they stop voting Democrat.

It’s probably also something to do with the “Wheel of Power” above.

Naturally there are some problems with all this, starting with who the most discriminated ethnic group in America actually is:

In the name of diversity, colleges make ethnicity a factor — and no group is more mistreated and abused than Asians. A Princeton University study found that students who self-identify as Asian must score 140 points higher on the SAT than white students, and a mind-blowing 450 points higher than black students!

See also the 2023 Supreme Court case that that Harvard was guilty of illegally discriminating against Asian students. But within that group is an even more screwed-over minority, due to the current male-female imbalance in American universities:

Women currently comprise 58% of all college students. There are 3 million more women in college than men, and in 13 states, women comprise over 60% of all college students….So, if you’re a boy applying to college, here’s some good news: You don’t have to be as smart or work as hard as the girls. They’ll let you in anyway.

Thanks DIE!

Not that things are great for the Asian boys either but they’re taking their own corrective actions:

Stanley Zhong, 18, is a 2023 graduate of Gunn High School in Palo Alto. Despite earning 3.97 unweighted and 4.42 weighted GPA, scoring 1590 out of 1600 on the SAT’s and founding his own e-signing startup RabbitSign in sophomore year, he was rejected by 16 out of the 18 colleges he applied to.

But shortly after the wave of rejections, he was offered a full-time software engineering role by Google.

His case has already been the subject of testimony at a House Committee on Education and the Workforce, where they’re trying to find out how the likes of Harvard are evading that SCOTUS decision.

It’s not great for the Non-Asian boys either:

An 18-year-old with a near-perfect GPA founded a business that made $30 million in its first year — but that isn’t enough to woo college counselors these days. At least that’s Zach Yadegari’s experience as he was rejected by 15 out of the 18 schools he applied to, despite a 4.0 GPA and score 34 on the ACT.

Like Stanley Zhong he seems to be taking it in stride. Bemused, but he was accepted by Georgia Tech, the University of Miami, and the University of Texas, which are pretty good schools, probably better than the Ivies nowadays, truth be told.

“I didn’t expect to be accepted to all of these colleges, however, I did expect to at least be accepted to a couple of the top schools I was applying to,” Yadegari told The Post. “I think that entrepreneurial accomplishments may not be fully appreciated.”

Well, no, judging by at least one of the outside responses to his application essay:

For every student with perfect scores like Zach, there’s a student with near perfect scores and more humility who’s overcome terrible circumstances and does not seem entitled,” a condescending professor tweeted. A former admissions director implied that the essay was “garbage.”
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Yadegari — the name is Iranian — apparently didn’t have a family member to tell him to fake a little uncertainty or apologize for his privilege.

Nice. Obviously the rejections from the likes of Harvard were more polite, but given the uniformity of thinking on such matters in today’s American (and other) universities, the same biases will have sat behind some of them.

The good news is that a lot of people responded to his Xitter post by saying that he doesn’t need university anyway, where he would only be taught what to think and not how to think, the latter being something he’s already demonstrated in spades, as well as skills he would never have learned at varsity (although what of drinking, chasing girls, and dealing with STDs?).

That last link is from an article arguing that the “cringe” essay component of applying to a US university should be scrapped (thank god it’s never been a thing here in New Zealand) because of all this nonsense and the resulting gaming of the system by families hiring coaches to help or even write the things:

The college admissions “essay is a deeply unfair way to select students for top colleges, one that is much more biased against the poor than standardized tests,” writes Yashcha Mounk. It encourages applicants “to cast themselves as victims, to exaggerate the adversity they’ve faced, and to turn genuinely upsetting experiences into the focal point of their self-understanding.”

“There is a huge class bias in college admissions, he writes. “If you come from a background in which your parents and grandparents went to college and many family friends have recently gone through the Kafkaesque process of gaining admission to an elite institution,” then you have the “cultural knowledge” to know how to market yourself, even if your parents can’t afford to hire a “coach” to write the essay for you.

To be fair to the US these essays apparently never amounted to much in the past. Only in recent years, as their society has gone DEI and become victimised, have they turned into platforms where students desperately write of helping to build a healthcare clinic in Mexico or overcome the heartbreak of psoriasis, and so forth. The following anecdote cracked me up:

Mounk recalls a college acquaintance “who won a prestigious fellowship to study in America based on a sob story about having his house bombed during the ‘troubles’ in Northern Ireland.” He didn’t mention he’d been at Eton at the time, and that the “house was one of the family’s many estates.”

Brilliant.