{"id":51480,"date":"2026-08-31T21:41:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T02:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=51480"},"modified":"2026-09-03T21:41:18","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T02:41:18","slug":"well-color-me-surprised","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=51480","title":{"rendered":"Well color me surprised"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/p>\n

NYP<\/a>: Civil rights lawsuit accusing numerous prestigious schools of racist anti-Asian bias in their admissions processes moving forward, after (then) teenager with near perfect credentials is rejected from most of them<\/span><\/p>\n

This is a story that\u2019s pretty much as old as time, where throughout pockets of \u2018Murica, there are some crazy smart Asian whiz kids with insane academic stats and accolades, that don\u2019t get into the schools they want to, simply on account of the fact that all these colleges are so overloaded with other Asian whiz kids that they don\u2019t want to accept any more.<\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019s an ugly reality that nobody in their right mind wants to admit to, but the undeniable fact of the matter is that schools have quotas of all sorts, and when it comes to the numbers Asian students, it\u2019s probably the one that is always got the most swirl around every single year.<\/span><\/p>\n

That being said, when I first heard about this particular Asian whiz kid<\/a> in question last year, I thought dang, sucks to be him, getting bodied by the system<\/em>, after it turns out that after near perfect SATs and a 4.42 (adjusted) GPA, he was still turned down by 16 out of 18 schools he applied to, getting into just Maryland and UT-Austin, but not Michigan, Cornell, Washington or any of the California state universities.<\/span><\/p>\n

Yeah, it sucks that he was just the latest victim to the dreaded Asian Curve\u2122, but he was not an isolated case, and he more than likely wouldn\u2019t be the last one to succumb to the sad American reality that Asians\u2019 care for academics and education often times is diluted by institutions\u2019 innate need to appear culturally diversified.<\/span><\/p>\n

When his Tiger Dad refused to accept it, and went after it legally, I remember thinking yeah good luck with that<\/em>, because ain\u2019t no way in \u2018Murica will they give a second thought to something that happens countless times throughout every single college admissions season.\u00a0 Don\u2019t get me wrong, I support Tiger Dad\u2019s plight, but like I said, this is something that has been happening since desegregation, and sorry for being nihilistic and thinking change seems impossible.<\/span><\/p>\n

So like the subject of this post states, color me surprised that it actually is proceeding forward.\u00a0 This means little in the grand spectrum of things because it does not immediately mean that thousands of Asians have been found officially discriminated against, but I am celebrating the fact that this seems to have taken one more step forward than most \u00a0attempts have in the past.\u00a0 It\u2019s been a year since I found about it, so the legal system is moving at about the expected pace, and hopefully it will emerge again next year with an update, but I imagine at this point, Washington and California will be collating metric tons of bullshit, inaccurate data, and all sorts of subjective intel, all with hopes of overwhelming the legal system with busy work and ultimately getting shit to be thrown out.<\/span><\/p>\n

But good on Tiger Dad for fighting the good fight.\u00a0 Change doesn\u2019t happen without people continuing to challenge the system and putting up fights, as fruitless and hopeless as they might seem.\u00a0 He\u2019s a better dad than I would probably be in a similar situation, but that\u2019s mostly on account of my beliefs that college isn\u2019t a necessary rite of passage for succeeding in life to begin with but that\u2019s besides the point.<\/span><\/p>\n

The funniest thing is that when the day is over, it really is kind of an emblematic battle, that almost feels like the impetus for the legal action has long been expired, but because it\u2019s picking up steam again, Tiger Dad has decided to make it about all Asians and not just his boy.\u00a0 Because after the 16 rejections from college, Google knew talent when it saw it, and immediately picked him up as an undrafted free agent and made him a software engineer, where he\u2019s probably already making fuck you money without having student loans, so effectively the Asian whiz kid has already kind of won, and won tremendously in that regard.<\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019s clear that Tiger Dad is this guy<\/a> who legendarily believed:<\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019s not enough that I should succeed \u2013 others should fail<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And despite the fact that his son has effectively already achieved success from a job and earning standpoint, he still demands that others should fail, which is in this case, the college admissions system, spear-headed by Michigan, Cornell, Washington and the State of California.<\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019s still a lofty uphill battle, that I don\u2019t really think will amount to much in the end, but it certainly would be amazing to see someone persevere so diligently and unrelentingly to where it got schools to finally throw up their hands and simply admit to the Asian Curve, and make it official.\u00a0 I wonder how many schools would rather pay to not have to do that, versus those who wouldn\u2019t?<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

NYP: Civil rights lawsuit accusing numerous prestigious schools of racist anti-Asian bias in their admissions processes moving forward, after (then) teenager with near perfect credentials is rejected from most of them This is a story that\u2019s pretty much as old as time, where throughout pockets of \u2018Murica, there are some crazy smart Asian whiz kids … Continue reading Well color me surprised<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[176,100,83,52,89,182],"class_list":["post-51480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-murica","tag-comparison","tag-observations","tag-owned","tag-racism","tag-tryharding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51480"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51482,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51480\/revisions\/51482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}