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Applying while Asian: No violin, no chess, no math club
Asian-American students are advised to be "less Asian" when they apply to selective colleges, reports Amy Qin in the New York Times.
Asian American students are advised to be "less Asian" when they apply to selective colleges, reports Amy Qin in the New York Times.
Don't admit you play the violin, compete at chess, belong to the math club or went to Chinese language school. If you join a cultural group, make it LGBTQ, not Vietnamese or South Asian.
Asian Americans are seen as "counterfeit kids" driven by ambitious parents, said Leelila Strogov of AtomicMind, which offers college counseling. Applicants can "confound stereotypes that Asian Americans aren't intellectually curious or are more interested in making money than improving society by reading literature and philosophy, for instance, or launching activities to help communities."
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