Im taking care of a lot of college right now (CommonApp, career surveys etc.) and my friends, mostly smart Asians were in a group chat with me. We were discussing application fees, acceptance rates and one of my friends is freaking out about getting into a well known local college, to which I jokingly responded he could easily do so because of affirmative action. My friends pointed out to me that Asians are discriminated against in affirmative action as well as whites. Apparently some colleges actually are willing to accept students with as much as a couple hundred SAT points lower than my almost 2200 simple based on race, and our country stupidly lumps together my friend who is Pakistani with East Asians in terms of discrimination against. So they count South Asians, a completely different ethnic and religious group, together with East Asians in being discriminated against alongside whites. I mean if you're going to use your hypocritical racist methods of "promoting equality" that doesn't even account for individuals of a "privileged group" being poor, at least have a better method of differentiating between completely different economic and social backgrounds. My Muslim Pakistani friend shouldn't be the same to them as my Afghani friend and my Chinese friend.
But I know, I should check my white privilege because I have so much in this country in a middle class neighborhood with a dickhead dad who's being a about money while my parents are separating. I didn't work nearly as hard for that 2200 SAT score as any Hispanic or black kid, even one in a rich neighborhood or from extremely different ethnicities as another person in their "group", would've worked for a 2000.
The whole system is retarded and just shows how idiotic seeing colleges for anything other than crap organizations going to any slummy level for funding from special interests, is.