Pre-Med at Dartmouth: Friendly Competition | The Dartmouth

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Fwd: 5 UGLY facts of discrimination against AsAms."

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FORWARD these ugly facts to your best friends, regardless of race WeChat account ID is: 8020ef.  Please scan our QR code,  shown below, & on 80-20 EF's WeChat site. For a Chinese  version of this e-newsletter, click  https://goo.gl/6GsJWe . Dear Fellow Asian Americans: By now OUR children and grandchildren have heard back from the colleges they applied to.   Review the following 5 UGLY facts and decide what WE  ought to do to help OUR offspring.        The most complete documentation of UGLY    discrimination against Asian American youth         Here is a complete account of the ugly discrimination against AsAm  youngsters by elite colleges, including a number of NEW discoveries.  These colleges are using the nobility of diversity as a cover to give an illegal advantage to white applicants over AsAms, thereby imposing an illegal quota on the number of AsAm students admitted.  Read item 2) carefully.   1)  DISCRIMINATION at the Graduate School Entrance Level:       The following table is published by the Am. Assoc. of Medical Colleges (AAMC).  The info in the first 10 columns shows that the acceptance rate for AsAm applicants is always the lowest in 9 different combinations of compa rable MCAT score & GPA, lower even than their white peers.  The info. in the  last 2 columns on the right show that the average AsAm MCATs score is the HIGHEST among all races, and yet they are accepted at the LOWEST rates among all races.  Outrageous!       The bar chart below, based on the info shown in the above table, illustrates the glaring differences in admission rates.        The desire for diversity and the intent of the Affirmative Action Program causes the higher acceptance rate of Hispanic & Black applicants with comparable academic achievements, which most AsAms understand and embrace. However, why are AsAms given a lower acceptance rate than white peers?        How about the acceptance record in 2017?  Same old, same old!  Click here to see the 2017 medical school acceptance rate.  We need to keep up with the public exposure of such shameful discrimination! 2)  DISCRIMINATION at the College Entrance Level:        In Table 3.5 on p 92 of Princeton Prof. Espenshade's famous book, "No Longer Separate, Not Yet Equal", the following shocking fact was revealed:                        Table 3.5 (emphasis added) Race Admission Preferences at Public & Private Institutions                  Measured in ACT & SAT Points, Fall 1997      ----------------------------------------------------             Public Institutions          Private Institutions          ACT-Point Equivalents   SAT-Point Equivalents   Item            (out of 36)                    (out of 1600)   -------------------------------------------------------------------   Race     (White)         --                              --     Black            3.8                          310     Hispanics     0.3                          130     Asian           -3.4                        -140      For the sake of diversity, we do embrace the idea of granting extra points to the ACT & SAT scores of blacks and Hispanics -- we would add even more, if needed.  However, why are 140 SAT pts. taken away from AsAm applicants? To give the white applicants an advantage of 140 SAT pts. over the historically disadvantaged AsAms by using the nobility of diversity as a cover? This is the reverse of affirmative action. This is a gross abuse of affirmation action. This is outrageous discrimination.       We estimate that the AsAm admits into the Ivy Leagues colleges would be about 25%, not 18%, if AsAms were not deceitfully forced to yield 140 pts to whites.   3)  DISCRIMINATION - a cabal to impose ILLEGAL quota on AsAms?      On page 203 of Ron Unz' book, entitled The Myth of American Meritocracy, the following diagram was shown.  It was based on data released by the National Center for Education Statistics.     The black dotted line shows that the number of college aged AsAms in our population has approximately doubled over a recent 20 year period. The red solid line indicates the % of AsAm students at the California Institute of Technology where "race preference" admission is not permitted, tracks that increase.      In strong contrast, the Ivy League colleges converge to 16% +/- 3% AsAms students..  It smells of an Ivy League cabal against AsAm students.   4)  Cowardly DISCRIMINATION against the weak & disorganized:    Some may say AsAms are only 6% of the national population, 16 +/- 3% is already too many.  Really?  Are they advocating a quota, which the Supreme Court ruled as illegal?  America's ideal is meritocracy.       Jewish Americans comprise only 2 % of the national population.  Look at the % of their youngsters in the Ivies, as reported by The Jerusalem Post in 2015.       Yale:         27% (1,500 Jewish undergrads out of 5,477 total),     Harvard:   25% (1,675 out of 6,694 undergrads),     Cornell:     21% (3000 out of 14315), and      Columbia: 35% (3000 out of 8,613).                 Further internet research reveals the following:      Penn:        25%      Princeton, Dartmouth and Brown: 13% to 20%              It is a testament to America's decency that discrimination against the Jews have stopped.  Nevertheless, the Ivies' discrimination against the weak and unorganized AsAms is cowardly. 5) Harvard's "Holistic Evaluation" is a Charade.  The White House Commi-    ssion on Presidential Scholars tells annually that AsAms are not Nerdy:          Harvard has never defined its "holistic evaluation."   It fought tooth and nail to keep its admissions records secret.  What is Harvard afraid of? How about  practicing the transparency, which Harvard preaches to its students and the  rest of the nation so frequently?       Fortunately, another group also performs a holistic evaluation of high school graduates annually.  The esteemed  "White House Commission on Presidential Scholars" evaluates  all high school graduates "on academic  achievement, personal characteristics, leadership, service, and other  extracurricular activities, and an analysis of their essays."      The Presidential Scholars Award Program, where clearly defined holistic evaluation is used, has named AsAms to 28% of their finalists spots  averaged over the last 15 years. Over that same period, AsAms have made  up only 18% of Harvard's admissions.         Shame on you, Harvard.  Your holistic evaluation is a charade in order to place a quota on AsAm students, just as you did against Jewish students decades ago.       6)  3 Supreme Court Justices also saw DISCRIMINATION:    Supreme Court Justices J. Alito, John Roberts and Clarence Thomas stated in their dissent, issued on June 23, 2016 (pp 22 -27):    "...  discriminates against Asian American students...including racial  discrimination that undeniably harms Asian Ams ... the court's willingness to allow this discrimination against individuals of Asian descent is particularly troubling, in light of the long history of discrimination against Asian Americans, especially in education ... In particular, the Fifth Circuit's willful blindness to Asian-American students is absolutely shameless." (emphasis added) 7)  How 80-20 EF Sees Things:    On Ivy League colleges:  These institutions are superior in numerous ways. However, they have committed discrimination against AsAm students, and have practiced hypocrisy and deceitfulness with their decision to favor white students over their AsAm peers.  It is a very shortsighted policy, possibly induced by racism and self-conceit.  History will not be kind to the presidents of these colleges, who participated in this apparent cabal.    On AsAm community: Our community is definitely at fault as well.  We have the average educational level and financial strength to understand the  seriousness of this discrimination against our children.  We have the  generational responsibility to urgently put our assets together to fight against it.  But we have not been able to get our act together yet.        History will not be kind to us, and will possibly be very harsh on those families who donated tens and hundreds of million dollars to get a Harvard building named after themselves.  Those ignorant and vain acts will be seen as marks of shame on those families.                                                  DONATE S. B. Woo  President and a volunteer for the past 18 years 80-20 Educational Foundation, Inc, a 501 C-3 organization, http://www.80-20educationalfoundation.org/index.php   To know more about 80-20, view these videos : https://youtu.be/dB3eGVqG-wA  (Ignore the last 35 secs. The election is over.) http://youtu.be/h781_ECSJYM  80-20 EF Mission Statement Copyright © 2017. All Rights Reserved.

Perspectives from Dartmouth Admissions: So you want to be pre-med?

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FW: college essay

 

Haran Kumar, Admitted to Harvard 2022

Answered Feb 23

I wrote this essay last semester and was accepted into Harvard University, Early Action. All students admitted EA receive a personal letter from the admissions department, explaining exactly why they admitted us (flattery is a powerful tool to increase yield) and why they think we should attend. My admissions officer specifically cited his appreciation of the "maturity and candor" of my essay as a reason that I was admitted.

Don't try to copy my essay or try to artificially create experiences like the topic of my essay. However, think about areas of personal growth that have occurred over the past few years, and highlight a specific story that describes part of how this change in yourself occurred.

Below is the essay that got me into Harvard — I hope you enjoy.

I'm a socialist living in a former slave state. Don't get me wrong. Missouri sits at the forefront of progress: it's the first state to force cities to lower their minimum wages, the state with national recognition for police abuses towards people of color, the state leading the charge to bring back coal. What's not to love?

More than these retrogressive policies themselves, I was always saddened and intimidated by the people behind them. Living in an affluent suburb, though, I was insulated from the most zealous of the right. Rural Missouri was nothing more to me than flyover country, to be viewed through the filter of a television's glass or car's fastened window. Thus, I was apprehensive when I heard that my debate team was heading to the Parkview Invitational in Springfield, smack dab in the center of the state.

From the outset, the tournament did not seem promising. First, the captain warned us that the tournament would be "super lay." For the uninitiated, "lay" is debate lingo for "avoid debate lingo." "Super lay" means "speak slowly and avoid multisyllabic words." Your math teacher is lay; your six-year-old sister is super lay. The second bad omen was the captain's advice to avoid our case about curtailing religiously targeted surveillance, as many of Parkview's judges probably held anti-Muslim sentiments themselves. As a person of color, this warning did not bode well for the weekend.

Despite our expectations, the first few rounds were surprisingly normal. Yes, we had some lay judges and some bad opponents, and yes, we lost some rounds we totally deserved to win. But every tournament has those. This was not some inhospitable alien world; we might as well have been in St. Louis the whole weekend.

Then came the last round. The judge was a former college debater, so we deduced that he wouldn't be one of the "super lay backwoodsmen" of whom the captain had warned. Given our assumptions about the judge's political predisposition, we instinctively reached for the religious surveillance case, which would provide a strategic advantage against Parkview opponents. With just a glance, we knew that this team would make the thinly-veiled racist argument that surveilling Muslims based solely on their religion is necessary to prevent terrorism. I was already claiming victory over these unexpecting bigots, ready for an easy win.

When I heard them speak, I was befuddled. They brought up an argument we had never considered: given the intelligence community's history of circumventing civil rights legislation, it would probably skirt any anti-discrimination legislation; but our plan's temporary erasure of the public memory of abuse would yield a setback in the struggle against capitalism; and the only true resolution of racism would come from upending capitalism itself, the ultimate cause of all social stratification.

Although we vehemently disagreed with them and argued that, pragmatically, the plan would be a net improvement over the status quo, they were simply better debaters than us. Every argument we made was met with three more compelling counterarguments. Just minutes in, I knew we'd already lost. It was no surprise that the judge's ballot reflected our decisive annihilation.

Parkview defied my expectations: I met revolutionary communists instead of backwards bigots; I met the best opponents I'd ever encounter in my four years of debate, not the worst. My preconceptions about Central Missourians could not have been more wrong. I had no right to pity them and no reason to fear them; if the Parkview Invitational hosted a single bigot, it was yours truly.

In my countless hours of debate, superior opponents from both sides of the aisle have made me question my political beliefs. But Parkview removed an entire lens through which my worldview had been filtered. That day, I learned how easy it is to hold unfounded prejudices: if we hope to rid the world of hatred, we must first take a good look in the mirror.

 

 

Writing off Dining Expense and Food in 2018 | Mark J. Kohler

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Sacramento Optimist Oratorical Contest - An annual speech contest for students in the region.

http://www.optimistclubsacramento.org/oratorical_contest/

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