The doctor behind the next big thing in cancer treatment

[Fred Bloggs]

Brilliant ethnic Chinese scientist, again. She graduated from Harvard, and now we're seeing Harvard discriminating against ethnic Asian admissions. The world is nuts, it must be global warming causing it.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/20/health/cancer-vaccines-catherine-wu-scn/index.html

[Anthony William Sloman]

Post by Fred Bloggs
Brilliant ethnic Chinese scientist, again. She graduated from Harvard, and now we're seeing Harvard discriminating against ethnic Asian admissions. The world is nuts, it must be global warming causing it.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/20/health/cancer-vaccines-catherine-wu-scn/index.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Students_for_Fair_Admissions_v._Harvard

It's a mess. Harvard gets 40,000 applications for 2000 student places and likes to consider "personal qualities" as well as academic merit. Strangely, Asian-American students tend to end up rated low on personal qualities, though their academic merit tends to be high. Asian-Americans are about 6% of the US population, but they represented 17% of Harvard's admissions a decade or so ago and are now up to 21%.

The real problem is that it's not easy to predict performance in tertiary education on the data available from academic performance in secondary education (where Asians Americans perform quite well), and any attempt to exploit non-academic data to improve the prediction is resented by people whose kids did very well academically at secondary school.

[Bill Sloman]

Darius the Dumb has snipped what was actually an on-topic post, and
catagorised me as an asshole for posting it.

That divorces his post from the original subject line and makes it a
perfect example of an off-topic troll post.

Sadly he doesn't understand irony (or anything much) so he won't get the
point.

Bill Sloman, Sydney