What Elon Musk Gets Right About Anti-Asian Bias In Elite College Admissions

Below excerpt and title of the article reported by Rim. C. (2023, February 27). What Elon Musk Gets Right About Anti-Asian Bias In Elite College Admissions. Forbes

‘Anti-Asian bias is an open secret at elite institutions—Elon Musk is ready to talk about it.’

‘When I applied to Yale University as a high school senior, I was told to expect rejection. There were plenty of reasons that I should not have held my breath—eighteen students in my graduating class were vying for the limited seats at Yale, my GPA was a less-than-stellar approximate 3.7 unweighted, and my test scores were lower than those of all of the other applicants from my high school. Rather than focusing all my effort on academics throughout high school, I had devoted my time to founding a nonprofit organization aimed at promoting bystander intervention and bringing emotional intelligence (EQ) into the classroom. Following my authentic passions allowed me to make meaningful change in my community, but it did not yield stand-out grades and test scores. In addition, no one from my school had been accepted to Yale within the past decade.’

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