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File photo of Harvard University. The Education Department’s Office of Civil Rights is investigating a complaint that Harvard and Princeton universities discriminates against Asian-Americans. |
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The Education Department’s Office of Civil Rights is investigating a complaint that Harvard and Princeton universities discriminates against Asian-Americans. The investigation began with a complaint from an Indian-American student in California who was near the top of his high school class but was rejected at both schools. The civil rights agency doesn’t discuss the substance of pending cases, so there’s no telling what evidence the Indian-American family might have to support a discrimination claim. Mere rejection - - by either Harvard or Princeton - - likely would not suffice, as both schools routinely reject students with perfect SAT scores and grade-point averages. A Harvard spokesman told reporter Golden the institution does not discriminate. Asian-Americans make up 16 percent of Harvard undergraduates. Asian-American students have challenged Ivy League admission policies before. Jian Li, a Chinese American, filed a civil rights complaint after Princeton rejected him in 2006. He’d scored a perfect 2400 on the SAT and graduated in the top 1 percent of his class, yet had been rejected at several Ivies. Golden reports that the agency received a fresh complaint in September targeting Yale, subsequently withdrawn. It’s questionable, though, whether any student could prove discrimination by those schools without access to stacks of admission data. Harvard’s admission rate has dipped to 6.2 percent, and Yale and Princeton aren’t far behind. There is simply no guarantee of admission, no matter one’s credentials. There’s plenty of research to suggest, though, that Asian-American applicants must bring higher test scores and GPAs than whites, Hispanics or Blacks to gain entry. Golden cites a 2011 study of admissions at Duke: Asian-American enrollees scored 1457 on the reading and math sections of the SAT, compared to 1416 for whites, 1347 for Hispanics and 1275 for Blacks. (Read by Nelly Min. Nelly Min is a journalist at the China Daily Website.) (Agencies) |
據(jù)報(bào)道，美國(guó)教育部民權(quán)辦公室針對(duì)哈佛大學(xué)和普林斯頓大學(xué)在本科招生時(shí)歧視亞裔的投訴已展開調(diào)查。 調(diào)查始自一名來自加州的印度裔美國(guó)學(xué)生的投訴，該學(xué)生是某高中的優(yōu)等生，但同時(shí)遭到兩所學(xué)校的拒絕。 美國(guó)教育部民權(quán)辦公室并未討論這樁待決案件的實(shí)質(zhì)內(nèi)容，因此這個(gè)印裔家庭支持歧視投訴的證據(jù)不得而知。如果僅僅是遭到學(xué)校拒絕，不管是哈佛還是普林斯頓，似乎不足以支持起訴，因?yàn)閮伤鶎W(xué)校經(jīng)常會(huì)拒絕SAT滿分和GPA高分學(xué)生。 哈佛大學(xué)的一位發(fā)言人告訴記者戈登，哈佛大學(xué)并沒有歧視亞裔申請(qǐng)人。亞裔學(xué)生占到了哈佛本科生的16%。 此前亞裔學(xué)生也曾挑戰(zhàn)過常春藤盟校的招生政策。 在2006年遭到普林斯頓拒絕后，華裔美國(guó)人李建（音）曾提起民事權(quán)利申訴。他在SAT考試中取得2400分滿分，畢業(yè)時(shí)成績(jī)排在全班前1%，但仍被多所常春藤盟校拒絕。 戈登報(bào)道說，民權(quán)辦公室去年9月曾收到過一起針對(duì)耶魯大學(xué)的投訴，但隨后投訴被撤銷。 但值得懷疑的是，是不是所有學(xué)生都能在無法接觸到大量入學(xué)申請(qǐng)數(shù)據(jù)的情況下證明自己遭到了歧視。 哈佛大學(xué)的錄取率已經(jīng)降至6.2%，耶魯大學(xué)和普林斯頓也高不出多少。沒有什么能保證學(xué)生被錄取，不管他有什么證書。 但大量調(diào)查表明，亞裔美國(guó)申請(qǐng)人的考試成績(jī)、GPA分?jǐn)?shù)要比歐美裔、西班牙裔和非裔高，才能被錄取。 戈登引述了2011年杜克大學(xué)的一項(xiàng)入學(xué)調(diào)查，亞裔美國(guó)入學(xué)者SAT考試的閱讀和數(shù)學(xué)成績(jī)平均為1457分，而歐美裔為1416分，西班牙裔1347分，非裔1275分。 相關(guān)閱讀 美州立大學(xué)被曝造假 中國(guó)留學(xué)生占多數(shù) 牛津大學(xué)“撒切爾教學(xué)樓”惹爭(zhēng)議 英國(guó)學(xué)生游行抗議學(xué)費(fèi)上漲 美大學(xué)要求學(xué)生配備iPhone和iPod Touch 爭(zhēng)搶生源 poaching of talented students （中國(guó)日?qǐng)?bào)網(wǎng)英語點(diǎn)津 Julie 編輯：陳丹妮） |
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Vocabulary: SAT: 全稱Scholastic Assessment Test，中文名稱為學(xué)術(shù)能力評(píng)估測(cè)試。由美國(guó)大學(xué)委員會(huì)（College Board）主辦，SAT成績(jī)是世界各國(guó)高中生申請(qǐng)美國(guó)名校學(xué)習(xí)及獎(jiǎng)學(xué)金的重要參考。 grade-point average: GPA，學(xué)生各科成績(jī)平均積分點(diǎn) |
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