# @smeharbinger on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/Cn4fgHJulPB
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/22490534-smeharbinger-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/thumbnails/85c1ea9303.jpg
- **Posted:** 2023-01-26T15:02:35.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** The Harbinger (@SMEHarbinger) — https://gondola.cc/SMEHarbinger

## Caption

You like math? Don’t tell them you’re Asian.

This is real college application advice from my Vietnamese mom’s Korean friends — who hate affirmative action. To them, I’m lucky: my dad is white so I can (hypothetically) be more “creative” when checking the race box.

Asian students are frustrated about their identity in the college admissions process and systemically punished for having “stereotypical” passions — all while being held to a higher academic standard.

Designed to increase diversity, affirmative action is an admissions policy that considers race and favors underrepresented groups. Basically, acceptance is capped for each race — bad news for the large pool of academically-competitive Asian students. 

Since 1990, the percentage of Asians in the US has more than doubled, according to the US Census, while the share of Asians in Harvard’s freshman class has only increased 6%. 

To read the rest of this story, click the link in bio. 

#storybykatiemurphy 
#socialmediabybridgetconnelly 
#photobyclarapeters

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