DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA- In 2015, Michael Wang, a salutatorian for his school, was denied in all of the Ivy League colleges he applied for. But on May 15th, 2015, he filed a lawsuit against Harvard due to “discriminatory admissions practices,” according to The Guardian.
In 2-year colleges, there have been a lot of Asian-Americans being accepted. In 2014, there were 65.2% of Asian-Americans in 2-year colleges according to the graph, and it is still growing.
Wang told The Guardian he had “no problem with positive discrimination – that’s the good part of affirmative action.” He also said, “But if you’re using race as a minus factor – that, I don’t think is OK.”
“The colleges have a choice, but shouldn’t make it off of race,” Jessica Colton, a high school student, had to say about the lawsuit that Wang has made against Harvard.
According to USA Today College’s page, there was a growing movement of Asian-American activists worldwide in 2016, fighting racism and protesting that there should be more Asian-American studies in their colleges.
“Dr. Bahng’s tenure denial is one among many cases that demonstrate the proliferation of unconscious bias in the tenure review process at — but not limited to — institutions like Dartmouth,” is the beginning of the petition that created at Dartmouth college for more Asian-American studies.
According to the Associated Press, some Asian-Americans are actually undecided on how they should feel about the racism that is around them due to their race. But they are also fighting it so that they can get better education just like everyone else, because they are like everyone else.