OUTRAGE! – AT 10:10 A.M. ET:  Consider this case of a wonderful Asian-American kid, and how he was treated in college admissions.  There is now a lawsuit underway against Harvard for discrimination against Asian Americans in admission decisions. 

Despite their remarkable record of accomplishment, Asian-Americans are not loved by some elite colleges.  They refuse to play the victim role, and their achievements, despite they being of a different race, go against the accepted leftist narrative of a racist society.  If there's anything the left hates in a minority, it's achievement.  How dare they wreck the accepted party line?  From the College Fix: 

Even his perfect ACT score, 13 Advanced Placement courses, a 4.67 weighted grade point average (second in his class), a 2230 on his SATs, participation in national speech, debate and math competitions, plus his piano and choir talents – all that – could not land Michael Wang a spot in the Ivies, Business Insider reports.

“An Asian-American, Wang suspected his race might work against him,” Business Insider notes, “but he was still shocked when he was rejected by Stanford and every Ivy League school except for the University of Pennsylvania.”

As The College Fix reported, Wang filed complaints against Yale and Princeton in 2013 after they rejected him, and he stated at a press conference in Washington D.C. last month announcing a new complaint by other Asian Americans against Harvard that his accomplishments – second in his class, high scores all around and many extracurriculars – should have made him a lock for admission.

“I’m not here to brag about my achievements,” Wang said, describing the “helpless” feeling he had reading rejection letters.

COMMENT:  I hope he wins his case.  Merit should determine college admissions, not quotas.

June 4, 2015