55 Responses to “How To Get Into An Ivy League School: A Step-by-Step Guide Featuring Testimony From a Real, Live Silver-Spoon Legacy and a Racial Minority!”

1. Reason Says:
   January 13th, 2009 at 1:16 pm

   Excellent post.

2. Inside Info Says:
   January 13th, 2009 at 2:26 pm

   I had a 2-year stint at an Ivy League admissions office (no, not Dartmouth). The information presented in the Ivygate piece is extremely accurate.

   A bit of friendly advice for the Asians:

   1. You should never, EVER talk about affirmative action in your application and/or interview. Yes, the system is actively hurting you and you may support Prop 209 in California, but if anyone asks, you full-heartedly support affirmative action because you value diversity. Most admissions officers know that it’s an unfair system, and they don’t like to be reminded of this fact by a bunch of snot-nosed 18-year-olds. They probably know a lot more about affirmative action than you do. On a related note, please don’t make references to the Bakke or Gratz/Grutter case in your essay(s). Admissions officers have allergic reactions to anything un-PC.

   2. Although there is no explicit/implicit quota, many admissions officers have certain negative preconceived notions about an Asian applicant. Unfortunately, many – if not most – Asian applicants don’t deviate too much from the stereotype. Smart Asian applicants can take advantage of this. Devote yourself to extracurricular activities which are typically devoid of Asians. If you are interested in music, pick up a guitar or become a composer. You are not helping yourself by picking up a violin or any other stereotypically Asian instrument. Pursue these classical instruments ONLY IF you are going to be good enough for prestigious conservatories. Instead of joining math/science teams, get involved with the poetry club, journalism, theater, cooking, etc. In general, be artsy and (at least seemingly) independent-minded. If you are an athlete, try to avoid tennis/badminton. Try football or other organized sports. If you are going to volunteer, try to avoid working at a hospital (screams premed) or go on church-sponsored missions. If your true passion is the violin/math/science/medicine, well… tough luck. Unless you are really, really good at what you do, you have to choose between your passion and Harvard.

   3. #2 applies to your academics as well. If you attend a public school with an honors track, do not pick the combination of courses that will yield the highest weighted GPA. Chances are, there will be 10+ other applicants from your school who took the same classes. Take at least one or two classes per year that are atypical (and don’t ncecessarily have the honors/AP designation). You may sacrifice your rank/GPA a bit, but you’ll be infinitely more interesting.

   4. If you first language is not English, it doesn’t help to take an SAT II in your primary language. On the other hand, it does help if you have attained proficiency in a third language.

   To sum it up, if you are an Asian applicant, your job is to play against the stereotype. You want to be the “breath of fresh air” – a pleasant surprise. Of course, it doesn’t hurt to have perfect numbers. But that’s far less important than finding and presenting a unique voice.

3. Good Job Says:
   January 13th, 2009 at 2:36 pm

   Good Job, I can appreciate an informative (more so than funny) article from time-to-time.

   Ideas for next week:

   Admissions Essays

   There are a lot of ‘legendary’ essay stories that people pass around about how “Some guy wrote his essay about X and still got into Y”.

4. P-2011 Says:
   January 13th, 2009 at 3:22 pm

   “my grandad flew to meet my dad & i [at the university]”
   “my grandad flew to meet my dad & *me* [at the university]“

5. pork Says:
   January 13th, 2009 at 3:28 pm

   I could not agree with #4 more. I remember telling my interviewer that my ideal school was a small liberal arts school and that CU would not be my first choice. Then look where I ended up.

6. Tiger Says:
   January 13th, 2009 at 6:25 pm

   7. Michele Hernandez’s “A Is For Admission” is the only admissions book worth reading — so read it. There are a lot of crappy ones out there, but I was blown away at how practical that one was. Sure you might not need it, but if you’re not a shoe-in, it’ll help.

7. princeton09 Says:
   January 13th, 2009 at 6:37 pm

   Oh okay, Michele Hernandez, thanks for the tip. Will be sure to purchase your book.

8. sfsf Says:
   January 13th, 2009 at 10:06 pm

   actually, I hate saying this, but yeah—A for Admission is by far the most practical. it’s at the opposite spectrum of the how to get in/how to deal with roommate pulp. Hernandez knows her stuff, and in truth, by the end of the book you’ll hate her for it.

9. affirmative action favors asians Says:
   January 13th, 2009 at 10:23 pm

   true, affirmative action hurts admissions chances for asians,
   but it definitely helps in college
   i can’t tell you how many times athletes, minorities, and legacies have lowered the curve in classes so that i can get A’s without even trying

10. The Kenosha Kid Says:
    January 13th, 2009 at 10:27 pm

    Then again, the sandblast of time may have dulled my memory of how it feels to be a desperately ambitious, upwardly-mobile eighteen-year-old, so my risk/reward calculus could be off.

    How could your calculus be off? You’re Asian!

11. Boo Says:
    January 13th, 2009 at 11:43 pm

    Maureen O’Connor, you’re an idiot, whoever you are. I know the staff of this shitty blog isn’t very diverse, but the shit you publish is downright offensive and has a white bias. I hope your intentions were satirical (honestly, it’s hard to call) but even then, fuck you for parts 3i, 3ii and 3iii. You’re the kind of person that sets our country back. And fuck this site for assuming that its readers and everyone in the ivy league is either white or asian.

12. christianarchisti Says:
    January 14th, 2009 at 12:31 am

    Oh my GOD how is it y’all are still alive ?
    Did satan the anti Christ america have a productive holiday break killing Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism, and Islam ?
    Don’t forget to worship your rothschild gods before bedtime tonight.
    Oh your world wouldn’t be the same if they actually had to face up to the law on their asses like every other king and baron and lord that came before them. It’s so insane the way those worthless piece of shit rothschilds get so much respect for hiding their evil ever so slightly but not completely. It’s great the way they busted all you dumb ass americans to do all their most evil shit for them and you yanks don’t feel bad about the mass murder of six million Jewish people your daddies paid for.
    Not only is the law going to catch up and bust the crew of americans who did 911 to themselves but it’s the same crew of morines who allowed the Lockerbie bombing, Air India bombing. You allowed Pearl Harbor, it was another false flag operation like the Germans getting in the Polish soldiers uniforms and attacking Germany so the Germans could make some slaves and pay off their american bankers building their instant militarized armed forces.
    The remote viewer in me says the continent from the North Pole to the Mexican U.S.A. border is gonna get wasted, and you’re stuck in the middle, au revoir lemmings.

13. @Boo Says:
    January 14th, 2009 at 12:37 am

    I don’t know if you look around a lot on your campus (if you even have one), but there tends to be a considerable number of white and asian people who are a little peeved over affirmative action. Actually more than a little; actually most are willing to have long, drawn out discussions/fights when not surrounded by people who are so close-minded. and if you’re so touchy-feely about it, go complain elsewhere. This blog has been funny for years now; if they ever go PC there would be no point… well, other than the juicy gossip you can pick up (Ivygate = Gossip Girl?). you rock maureen!

14. Metropolitan Says:
    January 14th, 2009 at 1:25 am

    I just don’t understand why people complain about affirmative action as if something is being taken away from them. I understand that we all have our expectations given our credentials and we live in a meritocratic society, but the fact is: NO ONE IS GUARANTEED ADMISSION BASED ON GPAs and TEST SCORES. I know it seems rational from the standpoint of an Asian student with a 3.9 and a 2370 on the SATs to wonder why he was denied admission when a non-Asian minority with less impressive credentials was admitted, but it’s ridiculous to feel so entitled that you complain that someone’s taken something from you when they’re a part of the same process. The fact is, even if Asians think they’re being denied admission when they would otherwise get in, it’s not fair for non-Asian minorities to be labeled as making it harder for Asians. It was the admissions committee that denied you, not the peers in your applicant pool and private universities, such as those in the Ivy League, can exercise their prerogative and interpret affirmative action in what they feel is their best interest. Getting into college is NOT about test scores and GPAs. I’m a non-Asian minority who did well in high school and was probably 20% and I’m thriving at my Ivy. So,here is my takeaway: SHUT THE FUCK UP already about being disadvantaged by affirmative action. Maybe the reason you weren’t admitted is because the other “less-qualified” student has the potential to be the next Barack Obama while your bookworm, awkward ass is only impressive in numbers and not in person. I’m sick of people undervaluing the worth of minority students in elite universities because, for some reason, people think that a group’s lower numbers, on average, translates to lesser academic success. People need to stop being bitter and realize that high school grades and SAT scores don’t mean shit when you consider the big picture, which is what college is about.

15. princeton09 Says:
    January 14th, 2009 at 1:41 am

    Well played, Metropolitan. Well played.

16. p1746 Says:
    January 14th, 2009 at 2:14 am

    @Metropolitan

    You know, not all that long ago, Ivy League schools (and other schools) didn’t let in racial minorities, women, and didn’t like to admit Jewish and Catholic students either. It’s true that no one is guaranteed admission based on GPA and test score, but I’m guessing you would be singing a different toon if that practice continued those good old boys told you to SHUT THE FUCK UP and that it is their prerogative as a private university to accept whichever students they want.

17. So Juicy! Says:
    January 14th, 2009 at 11:11 am

    I love this post for a few reasons:

    1. christianarchisti is back! With a fantastically appropriate little picture too!

    2. Less than 20 comments in and people are already telling each other the “SHUT THE FUCK UP”

    3. Presumably 95% of the readership is already in an Ivy, or at least in some college, so this post is more of a humorous look back than a real help.

    I’d say you should do a stint on Ivy grad school admissions, but most schools will admit they’re very simple: Do you have good grades? Do you have good recommendations?

18. H12 Says:
    January 14th, 2009 at 11:51 am

    Metropolitan, I understand your frustration that many people automatically assume that minorities were accepted on the basis of affirmative action rather than your merits, but you must be one retarded piece of fuck to 1) stereotype an entire race as socially awkward losers with only numbers to offer and 2) assume that said “numbers” are insigificant.

    While grades and SAT scores aren’t everything, they show colleges how someone has performed relative to their peers at school and at the national level. You say that you performed well academically at school; are you saying that you would have been as qualified to tackle an Ivy League education as a student without your presumably above-average “numbers?”

    Your comments almost make me reconsider affirmative action. I can’t think of reasons why you would have been accepted to an Ivy League institution without it.

19. p09 Says:
    January 14th, 2009 at 4:10 pm

    Really, I think the truth of the matter is that the whole college admissions process is so incredibly corrupt that there’s no way to fix it.

    I was a really good student in high school, so I was always a credible candidate for the Ivy League, but I’m not going to lie, the fact that I went to a New England prep school didn’t hurt my chances. My college guidance counselor had maybe 15 students to deal with, and her full time job was getting us into college. I went to talk to her every single week and worked on my essays and my apps with her. The college placement office had meetings every year to help teachers learn how to write good recommendations, and I’ve never been able to shake the feeling that there was a good deal of conspiring among the different college guidance people and admissions officers to make sure that the class as a whole got into the best schools possible.

    This was a completely unfair advantage that I had over my friends who went to public school. My best friend, whose middle school credentials were very similar to my own, met with her college guidance person once and was only allowed to apply to seven schools by her school.

    I know other people who had the same sort of support that I did, and that really helped them when playing schools against each other for financial aid or when they were trying to get off the waiting list at school X.

    Is it harder for a smart Asian kid to get into an Ivy than it is for a smart black kid? Probably. I would assume that that’s generally the case. But it’s also generally harder for a black or hispanic kid to get to the point where he or she is at the level of the multitude of well-prepared Asians (and note, that I said GENERALLY, there are of course rich black kids whose parents are Ivy alumni and Latin American gentry who get the affirmative action boost too), not because blacks and hispanics are any dumber, but because there are more cultural barriers. Fifty years ago blacks still couldn’t go to decent schools in some part of the US–that’s the sort of obstacle that just doesn’t go away over night with good wishes.

    The whole thing is just rotten, through and through. In any case, studies have been done that going to an Ivy League school doesn’t really boost your standard of living that much, unless you’re from a non-Asian minority. And there are worse things that could happen to you than not getting into an Ivy.

    Almost everyone I know at Princeton is massively stressed, over worked, and under rested anyway.

    If you do want to have a discussion on merit and meritocracy however, it might interest you to read <a href=”http://books.google.com/books?id=cwk0dIbV2HMC&printsec=frontcover&dq=the+rise+of+the+meritocracy” title=”Michael Young’s The Rise of the Meritocracy“>. It’s where the word meritocracy was coined, and it was done so in an ironic fashion.

    College admissions is horrible. But it could be worse.

20. Y11 Says:
    January 14th, 2009 at 4:35 pm

    What H12 said. Also, Maureen, we love you.

21. princeton09 Says:
    January 14th, 2009 at 6:16 pm

    p09, do you have the references for the studies on how going to an Ivy League doesn’t really boost your standard of living that much?

22. to P09 Says:
    January 14th, 2009 at 6:32 pm

    What you say isn’t true- because it is easier for rich WASPs at new england prep schools to be “prepare” to apply and go to ivy league schools, they are less likely to get into one since all their classmates are just as prepared, and it is well-established that ivies look very closely and how many students they take from each high school.
    case in point: assuming they are the same race, a valedictorian at a poor, largely-minority, inner-city public school is tenfold more likely to get into harvard than the valedictorian of st. john’s– even though the valedictorian of st. john’s probably has more APs, higher SATs, and better recommendations.
    it’s actually become advantageous (in terms of ivy admissions) to go to bad public schools in poor or unpopulated areas of the country.

23. being pc ain't bad Says:
    January 14th, 2009 at 8:11 pm

    Since when did trashing political correctness evolve from an angry reaction of anti-intellectual America to an ideal of authenticity among the intellectual elite? The point of being pc is not to avoid the truth. If that’s what you’re doing you should learn to articulate yourself better. Part of being pc is recognizing that other people may disagree and that doesn’t mean they’re idiots. It is also about realizing the effect your words can have. Frankly, I am feeling increasingly uncomfortable with the latent bitterness against black people in the ivy league. It is not our fault if affirmative action hurt you. Most of the people complaining were never actually affected by it and suffer from an inflated sense of entitlement. I am neither defending nor supporting affirmative action. It simply irritates me when people use it as an excuse to portray minorities in the Ivy League as undeserving or dumb. If you are going to attack affirmative action, attack the practice, not the people affected by it. Also explain why you are singling out affirmative action rather than other discriminations based on geography, school, athletics, etc.

24. harvard '11, asian Says:
    January 14th, 2009 at 9:42 pm

    Thank you for posting this, Maureen, and especially for noting that it’s not worth it, simply not worth it, to fudge your race and try to assume another identity just to get into college.

    I proudly mentioned my Chinese heritage (I’m not half-anything), on more than one occasion, but shied clear of mentioning affirmative action. I listed among my numerous activities both the stereotypical (piano, math, technology) and the atypical (newspaper, debate, fencing, poetry). I wrote my essay in a lyrical style more evocative of that stereotype of the silly white female English major than a nerdy Chinese girl. I was lucky; the “atypical” Asian is exactly who I am.

    The system is absolutely and horribly corrupt, both materially and morally. Affirmative action sets up horrible incentive structures — and yet it’s necessary. Anti-Asian prejudice, which keeps us out of important jobs (isn’t the ultimate point employment, anyway?) if not name-brand colleges, continues to be pushed aside because we Asians have an ethic of forbearance (maligned as “docility”), instead of a culture of assertiveness (maligned as “grievance”). But the state of race in affirmative action is just a reflection of the state of race in America.

25. p'11 Says:
    January 14th, 2009 at 10:57 pm

    >>Ideas for next week:
    >>Admissions Essays

    Good idea. I would love to see some ridiculous college essays on IvyGate.

26. jzb551 Says:
    January 14th, 2009 at 11:07 pm

    sad how asians are ’screwed’
    50 years ago most countries in asia were categorized as ‘third world’
    they face(d) racial discrimination
    but the admissions screw them and their parents for working hard and caring about education

27. @ being pc ain't bad Says:
    January 15th, 2009 at 3:03 am

    I’m offended that you suggest people who complain about affirmative action suffer from an inflated sense of entitlement. Can’t you just be more understanding of these people?

28. y12 Says:
    January 17th, 2009 at 2:24 pm

    jesus. this blog is disgusting.

29. azn at pton '12 Says:
    January 18th, 2009 at 2:52 am

    Okay Asians, trust me on this one. Marking anything remotely related to PRE-MED on your application is the kiss of death! It’s also a social handicap once you’re here. Sure I want to be a doctor just like EVERY other Asian here, but if someone asks I lie and say “politics”.

30. anon Says:
    January 20th, 2009 at 5:20 pm

    you know soledad o’brian is going to have her toe-head kids apply as “black”

    … by the way, no one is going to mention SO’B’s current newsworthy item of trying to evict her neighbor because of their dog?

    http://dlisted.com/node/30254

    I was hoping for an ivy gate spin on it

31. HF Says:
    February 23rd, 2009 at 3:56 pm

    Any suggestion on how to play hardball against schools? If gay couples and Dalai Lama can cause so much problems for authorities, Asians should be able to cause enough problem for schools.

32. Unbelievable Says:
    February 26th, 2009 at 1:26 pm

    @Metropolitan
    Sense of entitlement? You’ve got to be kidding me right? Isn’t that just the pot calling the kettle black? How dare we “uppity” Asians complain about unfair treatment! YOU SHOULD SHUT THE FUCK UP YOU RACIST IGNORANT MOTHERFUCKER.

33. HandsomeDan Says:
    April 28th, 2009 at 7:30 pm

    Im 15 i want to go to Yale a couple of my family members attended there and still keep in contact with some of the professors. I really dream of going to Yale, but my grades aren’t perfect, kind of the opposite. I really need advice on how to get in Yale.

34. Anonymous Says:
    May 2nd, 2009 at 4:51 pm

    You can’t get into an ivy league college if you’re Asian? Then explain the student body percentage of Asians at these schools…

    Harvard: 19% Asian/Pacific Islander
    Princeton: 17% Asian/Pacific Islander
    Yale: 14% Asian/Pacific Islander

    (www.collegeboard.com)

    They’re definitely not “screwed.”

35. Anonymous Says:
    May 2nd, 2009 at 4:54 pm

    You can’t get into an ivy league college if you’re Asian? Then explain the student body percentage of Asians at these schools…

    Harvard: 19% Asian/Pacific Islander
    Princeton: 17% Asian/Pacific Islander
    Yale: 14% Asian/Pacific Islander

    (www.collegeboard.com)

    They’re definitely not “screwed.”

36. anon Says:
    May 30th, 2009 at 1:48 am

    @Metropolitan
    you are an ignorant piece of shit and the definition of a politically correct douchebag. first you talk about how people are biased against you because you are a nonasian minority that got in because of affirmative action and then you categorize an entire race of people as socially awkward loser. fuck you you hypocritical cunt

37. CU10 Says:
    June 1st, 2009 at 10:17 am

    This is one of the most entertaining articles I’ve read recently. And everyone is getting worked up because there is a grain of truth to all the points. Hats off to Maureen, you atypical half-asian gal. You make me proud.

38. comrade_khan80 Says:
    June 10th, 2009 at 7:36 pm

    Hey- After reading this article, I could see that being Asian isn’t exactly a plus. I am technically “Asian,” but really I’m a Pakistani-Canadian in America, living in the whitest state (Maine). My parents grew up during the Indo-Pakistani Wars + the Pakistani Civil War, so they lived in bomb shelters (i’m not exaggerating). And on top of that, I’m a Muslim… So, does the whole anti-Asian thing apply to me? Or do you think the people in the Admissions Office would exempt me from this rule?

39. @comrade Says:
    June 14th, 2009 at 5:58 am

    Usually, Southwest Asians are considered white, rather than Asian.

40. Anonymous Says:
    June 16th, 2009 at 8:03 am

    I’m 15 and I am already thinking about what University I would like to go to. Yale would be awesome, but I think that I am aiming to high. I live in Sydney, so I should probably be thinking about going to a school in Australia.

41. Joe Says:
    June 24th, 2009 at 10:20 pm

    Being a white male, I don’t care much about affirmative action. I graduated from MIT (elec engg comp. sc.) and had a full ride there. I think the whole Ivy thing is overrated. Schools such as MIT are quite good.On a different issue, I am not in favor of just allowing anyone to attend a university in the united states (in terms of international students) Half these international students (specially Chinese) are probably going to be recruited by the PRC for spying on the US later, so we need to be doing some serious background checks on such internationals.No offense, but if you want to study in America, you have to be pro-America, not spying for China. Anyone who thinks this situation isn’t true:
    http://www.heritage.org/press/commentary/ed053105c.cfm

42. Army v.s. Navy Says:
    June 30th, 2009 at 3:10 pm

    Im a son of a west point graduate and to be honest, the affirmative action thing does help but my father agrees to just say your black even if your not its against the law to ask proof of your race. He also did it. So either way black or white use whats given to your to your advantage. At the academies I know U.S.N.A. does it; they fast-track blacks to the top of the list.

43. Neil Says:
    July 4th, 2009 at 7:41 pm

    Does the whole Asian thing apply to South Asians? I’m a junior in high school and 100% Indian.

44. Lea Says:
    July 16th, 2009 at 4:11 pm

    This blog is hugely entertaining and somewhat (dare I say it) informative. I am 16 years old and just starting the daunting process of applying to college and despite my family’s consistent involvement in Ivy schools, I dread rejection more than anything. This blog provided a pleasant, satirical take on the nightmare I have to deal with for the next six months. And as for the informative part, at my point in the process it is obviously too late for me to gain any more credentials then I already have however the comments on this blog give a truly insitful glance at what the world thinks of college. Mainly I get that most people see admissions officers as ringmasters but these comments also have helped me develop my own opinions further.

    However, Maureen, I must disagree with you on one point- the alumni interviews. It is true that most alumni that volunteer their time to listen to over-achievers blab about their limitless accomplishments actually enjoy it but it does not mean they do not have varying levels of approval. Surely, they have heard the same merit stories over and over however they do relish the occasionally refreshing, truly exceptional individual that graces their office. My dad, for example, assumed the role as an alumnus interviewer for Harvard and the single applicant he still remembers was an 18 year old young man who, instead of spending his time at countless leadership clubs, spent his days as a member of a ski patrol on the local mountain. My father was engaged, he felt this applicant was capable of thriving at Harvard, and my dad wrote a giant “ADMIT HIM” on the interview document. Needless to say, he was accepted.
    My point being: an alumni interview is not nothing. If you make a good impression and truly strike them as an engaging young adult then you may end up attending the school of your dreams and enticing the memories of an old alumn for years to come.

    Good luck to all! We surely need it..

45. dara Says:
    July 27th, 2009 at 8:26 pm

    Interesting. Our children are white with 1/16 Cherokee in which we have no written documentation. How might you suggest to approach this with admissions?

46. John Says:
    July 30th, 2009 at 8:08 pm

    Yeah it’s hard for people who are white or Asian but I believe there is a way around that. The key is to be the anti-stereotype, specifically for Asians. I’m Asian and everybody assumed I was unathletic, good at math, science…well you know the stereotype. There’s a cool blog posting about being the anti-stereotype. http://www.gettingintoschool.org/?p=30. It really helped me stand out and not look like all the other asians in the mix.

47. tom Says:
    September 19th, 2009 at 10:31 am

    i am a non asian minority. affirmative action is the best thing that has ever happened to me because now i get to go on to ivy league colleges while mr whitey and his chinese counter part are completely at a disadvantage in admissions. being black and poor with at least decent grades almost guarantees enrollment at your dream university.

48. justakid Says:
    October 15th, 2009 at 9:22 pm

    Interesting stuff here. Just to throw in my take on how skewed ivy admissions can be, I was amazed at how much difference being a recruited football player makes. I’m white (just for the record), high GPA, lots of APs, way-too-low-for-Ivies SATs (about 1800), rank about 12% = nothing that would get me noticed or accepted by any Ivies. Add in good football skills and wow 7 of 8 Ivies recruited me, calling, writing, convincing me why they’re a great school. After I picked one, I had shortened app, hand delivered to admissions (in August! before senior year of high school). By mid sept, officially admitted, and had letter from financial aid covering everything, no loans (need based). On the theory that sometimes the luck falls for you and sometimes against you, I’m going with it and feeling very lucky! I’ll give it all for that football team, and hopefully can cut it in the classes. Moral: running and jumping beat SATs for Ivy admissions.

49. Friend of Negros Says:
    October 19th, 2009 at 10:02 pm

    Metropolitan sounds like the typical affirmative action nigger who thinks the whole world is out to get him- get over yourself darkie, and don’t choke on your fried chicken.

    Blacks are a riot. They are the most pampered, spoiled class of degenerates in the known universe, and yet they have the audacity to cry “discrimination” and “hypocrite” and then proceed to call an entire race “socially awkward losers”.

    Of course porch monkeys will love affirmative action like they love waddymellon and gangsta rap- it’s the epitome of hypocrisy.

    It’s time to stop lionizing these horrifically uneducated, unqualified and underperforming chimps from Africa. We should start sending them deodorant and condoms for their AIDS and that you-can’t-quite-put-your-finger-on-it ghetto stench.

    That will help them far more than a few points on de’ ES-AY-TEE n’ sheeit.

50. Friend of Negros Says:
    October 19th, 2009 at 10:09 pm

    Yep I said it. Fed up with you cross-eyed syphilitic gorillas crapping on “Asians”. You are constantly on the prowl for “easy targets” like elderly women or minorities that are small in numbers.

    Here’s some news, fish lips, picking on Jews, gays, “Asians” or whatever victim-of-the-week will NOT ingratiate you to your white masters. So like I told Miss Jones of the Tsunami Song, just stop. Just stop your ridiculous, whiny, sanctimonious posts about how your 400 years of cotton picking blah blah blah.

    Take your banana and go home for fucks sake. Play some basketball. Get yo’ Aunt Jemina and Afro-momma to make you some sweetbread. Go snort some crack up your very wide nostrils. Wear your pants around your ankles and swagger. Beat up a white kid.

    Do what niggas do, yo, and don’t hurt yo’ head bout dis firm’tive akshun n’ SHEEIT

51. faryal Says:
    November 8th, 2009 at 10:28 am

    this post sucks like hell
    Maureen O’Connor whoever this idiot is has no life and has to revert to stereotyping Asians. Let me kindly inform you one thing. Asians are much more of a “breath of fresh air” and “interesting” than you think. I was wrong when i clicked on this post and thought it could actually be of help. U suck

52. in shock Says:
    November 15th, 2009 at 3:35 am

    It’s shocking that people actually waste time getting upset about these posts. As upsetting as the truth may be its still the truth. Affirmative action does exist whether you are for it or against it.

    To Friend of Negros:

    You are a very typical Asian. Narrow minded and defensive. What are you? Chinese? As sorry as I am to be part of this stereotyping I find it necessary to state that you follow the typical Chinese pattern of behaviour. You strive to make excuses for yourself by blaming everybody else for your own mistakes. You get defensive and because of your culture of censorship and simple mindedness you don’t see the bigger picture. My oh my look what Mao has done to you.

    On affirmative action… getting into an Ivy League school is difficult. And as seemingly unfair as it may seem I agree that it is somewhat necessary.

    Asians- you guys are diligent, hardworking and you make excellent grades. All the power to you! Of course there are those who are much, much more diverse and interesting than that. UNFORTUNATELY no matter how unfair it is people, especially Americans, will always stereotype you and too them you’ll just be the typical bookworm nerd. Prove them wrong! Maybe that stereotype actually has basis in fact. If you are Asian everyone expects you have good grades and to be good at violin and aspire to be a doctor. To be exceptional you have to prove that you are more than your good grades and music skills. BE EXCEPTIONAL

    I truly am shocked! I had every intention of pursuing ivy league but this post has changed my mind. Maybe I should start looking into Cambridge and Oxford.

53. you go girlfriend Says:
    November 15th, 2009 at 9:23 am

    In shock:

    You go girlfriend

54. Columbia12 Says:
    November 15th, 2009 at 11:46 pm

    LOL @inshock – if you want racial diversity, welcoming athmospheres and a liberal attitude from people, DO NOT go to Oxbridge. :D

55. admitted Says:
    November 18th, 2009 at 12:35 pm

    I just wanted to say thanks for affirmative action, you struggled to maintain a 4.0 average went to the best private schools and the bam nothing nada I took your spot. I love affirmation it rocks.
    I hope it was your spot that I took Friend of Negros. I didn’t even want to go to a ivy league. haha

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