Thursday’s historic Supreme Court ruling that dealt a severe blow to race-based prejudice in the nation’s educational institutions will have far-reaching ramifications in terms of the rollback of systemic racism brought about by affirmative action, but some of the early winners will be Asian-Americans who have suffered as a result of discrimination.
Some of the beneficiaries of the high court’s 6-3 ruling that should open up opportunities to all in higher learning expressed gratitude at the new era that was just ushered in by the conservative justices who, despite intense harassment from Democrats and their minions, stood true to America’s promise of equality by sending affirmative action on its way to the trash heap of history.
“I always felt like it was practically an impossibility for me to get into an elite college, at least in part because of my ethnicity,” one first-generation Chinese-American teen told the New York Post. “It made me a little despondent.”
“It no longer seems like an impossibility. It’s at least on the table,” added the teen whose first name is Leo, a student of high achievement who dreams of being able to enter colleges like Stanford and MIT to study biochemistry to become a research journalist.
“Now I can apply to these schools with at least some hope of actually getting in, rather than just applying to them ceremoniously,” he added.
Command Education founder Christopher Rim believes that the Supreme Court ruling is going to provide better chances for Asian-American students to get into elite universities now.
“I always have so many Asian students who are disappointed,” said the 29-year-old Rim, whose company specializes in college admissions consulting. “But I think this is really going to level the playing field.”
Rim told the New York Post that he received calls from over 30 clients after the SCOTUS ruling was released on Thursday with both students and parents expressing optimism about getting into their dream schools now that college racism has taken a hit.
“I think this is very motivating and inspiring for some students,” he said. “A lot of people haven’t even been trying [to apply to top colleges] because they know the odds are stacked against them, but now I feel like we’re going to see a change here.”
Alex Sheih, an 18-year-old youngster from Massachusetts of Korean and Taiwanese descent who is set to enter Brown University, said he believes that his race was a factor in his admissions decision.
“It’s honestly a little off-putting and unsettling knowing that the Brown admissions officers were not just viewing me as Alex, but as Alex the Asian American,” he said. “I would rather just be viewed for who I am, not for my race.”
However, not everybody is as optimistic. James Chen of Asian Advantage College Consulting warns that colleges will just move the goalposts in order to circumvent the Supreme Court ruling.
“I think a lot of students will be lulled into a false sense of relief,” Chen told the Post. “I don’t believe this is going to affect anything in the immediate future. The colleges are going to find ways around it.”
Chen pointed at Harvard University which is already flouting the spirit of the ruling with the Ivy League snob factory issuing a statement that it will begin using admissions essays as a criteria.
Here’s how Harvard plans to get around SCOTUS ruling https://t.co/C55YCRsBf8 via @BIZPACReview
— BPR based (@DumpstrFireNews) June 30, 2023
“Today, the Supreme Court delivered its decision in Students for Fair Admissions v. President and Fellows of Harvard College. The Court held that Harvard College’s admissions system does not comply with the principles of the equal protection clause embodied in Title VI of the Civil Rights Act. The Court also ruled that colleges and universities may consider in admissions decisions ‘an applicant’s discussion of how race affected his or her life, be it through discrimination, inspiration, or otherwise.’ We will certainly comply with the Court’s decision,” wrote the elite university.
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