Exploring the concept of "Asian Priviledge" as it applies to higher education.
In 2019, certain students with high achieving transcripts and standardized test scores are getting waitlisted or flat-out rejected for admission into the colleges they have worked (some since Preschool) to attend. Students who would have gotten into their dream schools, only a few years earlier, are finding that in many cases personal hertiage is playing a larger role than scholastic/community achievement. Even before the "Varsity Blues" Scandal, Harvard University was sued over its admissions policy - where it was discovered that Asian students were being unfairly discriminated against during the Admissions process. This TEDx Talk hopes to shed light why students who would have been accepted to institutions of higher learning five years earlier are now facing rejection, based on the color of their skin, not the content of their character. Jay hopes our culture is able to evolve to where we value divesity of thought more than diversity of heritage.
