Axelrodgris

Hi Hasan! I'm a huge fan and I think you've made some very intelligent points in the first two episodes...

However, I have some very serious qualms with your first episode regarding college admissions and affirmative action. I am an Indian-American and a STRONG supporter of affirmative action - believe disadvantaged minorities should be given uplifting opportunities. However, I also know that asian-americans are getting SCREWED by the admissions process at the top schools. As someone who recently went through the undergraduate process and is now embarking on the graduate admissions process, let me tell you that hard-working asian americans are asked to score at statistically significant higher levels than their white and minority peers in order for them to even have a SHOT at the top schools.

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My fellow asian peers and I toil day in and day out, with the dreams, struggles, and expectations of our immigrant parents on our backs, just to find out that at the end of the road, we never had a fair shake in the first place.

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This brings me to my second point. At the end of the first episode, you imply that if Asian-Americans feel that this topic is more important than Affirmative Action, then that in itself is un-american. I wholeheartedly disagree. Education is in fact the prime reason why our families even moved to America in the first place. Indians, particularly, do not usually immigrate here due to lack of economic opportunities back home or persecution. It is almost always for opportunity and education. Are we not supposed to care when the whole purpose of our parents leaving their homeland and struggling for years in a foreign land is being severely compromised?

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Again, I strongly support Affirmative Action, but believe that one can support AA and still argue that something serious needs to be done about the plight of the Asian-American applicant. This case in the Supreme Court is finally giving our plight some of the attention that it is due. Would love to hear your thoughts - I love you and the show!!!

Nope. Asian-Americans are actually required to score higher than their white counterparts.

Nope. I'm saying Asian-Americans and Whites should be held to the same standard.

This is essentially what I was trying to say. Perhaps I wasn't clear as I was rushing to get in a post in time for Hasan to read