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I am a Chinese-American high school student from a high school in California who has just completed 11th grade 6 days ago. I value education and hard work, because I have been taught that if you worked hard, were passionate about your education, and believed in the American dream of opportunity, you can at least open more doors of opportunity for myself (in this case, one of my stepping stones to success is to be accepted by a good college/university). At school, my teachers had taught me that if I worked hard academically and maintained a balanced and well-rounded lifestyle, I would improve my chances of getting into a good college. After all, the teachers were at least fair in the sense that if you studied hard for your test, you'd reap the reward of scoring higher on your tests on most occasions. Indeed, it made sense to me that since America's Olympic game's basketball team (composed of not a single Asian) didn't pull a good portion of the current players from the team out, on the basis of racial diversity in representation, to be replaced by a non-NHPI Asian-American players in order to strengthen non-NHPI Asian-American's foundation in the area of sports, it didn't occur to me that a different rule based on race would need to be applied to the educational field. However, I was never told by my teachers that I would have to score much higher on my SAT and have a much higher GPA than my non-Asian and NHPI classmates sitting right next to me in class, because I was born into the "wrong" race (in terms of college entrance): the Asian race. This year, I witnessed some of my Asian classmates who were just as qualified or more qualified (from both the high school I had transferred from and the high school I currently am in) be rejected, rejected, and rejected by all of the IVY league schools. Many of these Asian-American students were well rounded and excelled in school. In the end, I learned that NONE of these non-NHPI Asian-American students from both high schools had been accepted by the IVY league schools. Who got in to the IVY leagues schools from both schools? The answer is, students from non-Asian decent did...because of the need for "diversity".
Some people, seem to value the need of diversity over how much time, energy, effort, and sacrifices I have put into my education. They seem to think that because of the need to help other races have a leg up in education, it's ok to take advantage of the non-NHPI Asian-American students through Affirmative Action laws, such as AB 1726, by giving away their rightfully earned spots into their dream university to another equally qualified, but of non-Asian and NHPI decent, applicant. They seem to think that it's ok to plant the idea into thousands of non-NHPI Asian students' minds that no matter how hard they work, they will have to sacrifice more and suffer through more of the pain in conquering more obstacles in life in their academic field, because they were born as an non-NHPI Asian-American. In this sense, they seem to think that it's ok to hurt thousands of dedicated non -NHPI Asian-American students' motivations, ambitions, dreams, and innocence in believing in equality.
As a high school student, fresh out of 11th grade, I can testify that it is extremely discouraging to have to fill in the bubble on my answer sheet of being from an Chinese-Asian decent on my SAT bubble answer sheet, my 15 AP test bubble answer sheet, my ACT bubble sheet, and my college application-related bubble answer sheets. Why? Because I know that I will be categorized by my race and judged for that by the colleges that I have worked so hard to get into. I know that the moment the college admission officers see a dark bubble next to the word "Asian", they will expect a much higher SAT/ACT score, a much higher GPA, and an amazing extracurricular profile. In essence, they will be asking me to be a nearly perfect student in the eyes of many to get into an IVY league school.
Assemblyman Bonta and SEARAC, how would you feel if you were in my shoes? How would you feel if your possible future children and grandchildren went through what I have to go through right now? How would you feel if your brothers and sisters had to go through this?更多精彩文章及讨论，请光临枫下论坛 rolia.net
I am a Chinese-American high school student from a high school in California who has just completed 11th grade 6 days ago. I value education and hard work, because I have been taught that if you worked hard, were passionate about your education, and believed in the American dream of opportunity, you can at least open more doors of opportunity for myself (in this case, one of my stepping stones to success is to be accepted by a good college/university). At school, my teachers had taught me that if I worked hard academically and maintained a balanced and well-rounded lifestyle, I would improve my chances of getting into a good college. After all, the teachers were at least fair in the sense that if you studied hard for your test, you'd reap the reward of scoring higher on your tests on most occasions. Indeed, it made sense to me that since America's Olympic game's basketball team (composed of not a single Asian) didn't pull a good portion of the current players from the team out, on the basis of racial diversity in representation, to be replaced by a non-NHPI Asian-American players in order to strengthen non-NHPI Asian-American's foundation in the area of sports, it didn't occur to me that a different rule based on race would need to be applied to the educational field. However, I was never told by my teachers that I would have to score much higher on my SAT and have a much higher GPA than my non-Asian and NHPI classmates sitting right next to me in class, because I was born into the "wrong" race (in terms of college entrance): the Asian race. This year, I witnessed some of my Asian classmates who were just as qualified or more qualified (from both the high school I had transferred from and the high school I currently am in) be rejected, rejected, and rejected by all of the IVY league schools. Many of these Asian-American students were well rounded and excelled in school. In the end, I learned that NONE of these non-NHPI Asian-American students from both high schools had been accepted by the IVY league schools. Who got in to the IVY leagues schools from both schools? The answer is, students from non-Asian decent did...because of the need for "diversity".
Some people, seem to value the need of diversity over how much time, energy, effort, and sacrifices I have put into my education. They seem to think that because of the need to help other races have a leg up in education, it's ok to take advantage of the non-NHPI Asian-American students through Affirmative Action laws, such as AB 1726, by giving away their rightfully earned spots into their dream university to another equally qualified, but of non-Asian and NHPI decent, applicant. They seem to think that it's ok to plant the idea into thousands of non-NHPI Asian students' minds that no matter how hard they work, they will have to sacrifice more and suffer through more of the pain in conquering more obstacles in life in their academic field, because they were born as an non-NHPI Asian-American. In this sense, they seem to think that it's ok to hurt thousands of dedicated non -NHPI Asian-American students' motivations, ambitions, dreams, and innocence in believing in equality.
As a high school student, fresh out of 11th grade, I can testify that it is extremely discouraging to have to fill in the bubble on my answer sheet of being from an Chinese-Asian decent on my SAT bubble answer sheet, my 15 AP test bubble answer sheet, my ACT bubble sheet, and my college application-related bubble answer sheets. Why? Because I know that I will be categorized by my race and judged for that by the colleges that I have worked so hard to get into. I know that the moment the college admission officers see a dark bubble next to the word "Asian", they will expect a much higher SAT/ACT score, a much higher GPA, and an amazing extracurricular profile. In essence, they will be asking me to be a nearly perfect student in the eyes of many to get into an IVY league school.
Assemblyman Bonta and SEARAC, how would you feel if you were in my shoes? How would you feel if your possible future children and grandchildren went through what I have to go through right now? How would you feel if your brothers and sisters had to go through this?更多精彩文章及讨论，请光临枫下论坛 rolia.net