Ivy league colleges artificially limit number of Asians they admit

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Re: Ivy league colleges artificially limit number of Asians they admit

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Storm wrote: Basically, they create a generation of extremely hard working and studying students, but they are all mindless robot clones of each other.  If Asian mothers want their kids to succeed, they should encourage them to diversify their interests and hobbies and not be just like the perfect Asian stereotype.
This is called Tiger Mothering:

http://abovethelaw.com/2011/04/sophia-c ... ard-bound/

http://www.thepointmag.com/2012/essays/on-tiger-moms
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Re: Ivy league colleges artificially limit number of Asians they admit

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MachineGhost wrote:
Pointedstick wrote: What they want is diversity of income, race, gender, and nationality, so long as nearly everyone agrees on the same unspoken upper crust white collar aspirations.
What's wrong with that?  It's the American Dream!
I thought home ownership was the American Dream. Or maybe it was generational social mobility? Seems like a term that's fairly interchangeable with anything good.
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