Bad news for Asian-Americans across the United States — they won’t be finding much reprieve from school administrators and staff at the university level. Look no further than the curious case of 18-year-old Jon Wang, a Florida native sporting some impressive academic marks.
According to Fox News, Wang scored a sterling 1590 out of 1600 on his SAT exam (many Asian parents would probably be mad about him being 10 points short of a perfect score) and earned an eye-popping 4.65 high school GPA, thanks to advanced classes that enable students to achieve GPAs higher than the 4.0 associated with straight A’s.
Given those marks, and the fact that Wang doesn’t appear to have any character or criminal issues, you would think one of the admissions departments at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, California Institute of Technology, Princeton, Harvard, Carnegie Mellon University or the University of California, Berkeley, would give Wang the time of day.
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You would think wrong.
Wang told Fox that he was rejected by all of them.
So, what gives? What possible explanation could be provided that would explain why Wang couldn’t make the cut?
Wang has one idea why — and it’s one that he was warned about when he began the application process.
In short, Wang blames the paradoxically named “affirmative action” that is neither affirming nor helpful for his issues.
Wang told Fox that when he began applying for school, his friends and counselors warned that “it’s tougher to get in, especially as an Asian-American.”
Look no further than the loaded language used by CNN to describe the fact that Asian-Americans make up nearly 28 percent of Harvard’s admitted class of 2026: “Demographically Over represented.”