So you’re a 17 year old high school student, your GPA is 4.0, you’ve scored 2150 out of a possible 2400 on the SAT (something you call “pretty low”), and you’re filling out your application to Harvard. You get to the section where you have to check off your race. Your father is of Norwegian ancestry, and your mother immigrated from Taiwan. Your name is Lanya Olmstead.
What box do you check?
“I didn’t want to put Asian down,” explained Olmstead, “because my mom told me there’s discrimination against Asians in the application process.”
Olmstead checked “white.”
Could this be a case of reverse affirmative action? Of Asians being punished just because they’re doing too damn well?










So I recently stumbled onto this
1. When they sit down for a meal at a restaurant, they will pray loud enough so that everyone in the establishment can hear. Even if they are eating alone.

