My race may have played a factor in my college rejections, but I support affirmative action

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My race may have played a factor in my college rejections, but I support affirmative action

Former Harvard President Drew Gilpin Faust once stated that Harvard could fill its entire class twice over with valedictorians.

And while I certainly wasn’t in the running to be a valedictorian at any point in my K-12 education, I like to think I had a reasonable shot at an Ivy League school when I was a high school senior.

I had a perfect SAT math score, 34 on the ACT and 1,000-plus volunteer hours; was debate team president, class president, editor-in-chief of a school publication and principal cellist of a local orchestra; and took some double-digit number of AP classes at my elite, private college preparatory school.

In short, I was just like many others vying for the Ivy League – and probably very similar to the anonymous Asian American students who are having their failures exploited by Edward Blum through his lawsuits against Harvard and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

I got rejected from those two colleges – and actually from every college I applied to except for one: the University of Florida, a school that does not factor race into its admission decisions.

So-called 140 SAT point 'penalty'

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