June 19, 2018 - Steve Pieczenik
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| Hi, this is Dr. Steve Pachanek, and this is Steve Talks. | |
| Thank you. | |
| you Hi, I'm Dr. | |
| Buchanek and this is Steve Talks. | |
| Today I'd like to talk about something that's very personal to me and that is the fact that Asian Americans have been discriminated against in all of the Ivy League schools. | |
| Now, for many of you, that may not sound serious. | |
| To me, that's quite serious, because it recapitulates the experience I had as a Jew 30 years ago. | |
| So nothing has really changed at Harvard, Princeton, Yale, or Cornell. | |
| Let me give you the facts and statistics concerning Asian Americans. | |
| They are about 160 points above any of the whites who apply to Cornell, Harvard, or Yale. | |
| At the SAT level and the PSAT. What that is considered in the Ivy League school, that is considered the Asian tax. | |
| That means in order to just apply as an American Asian, that means you have to score between 140 and 160 points higher on the SAT-PSAT. On top of that, you have to be at the top of your class. | |
| You have to have a 4-0 education. | |
| And you have to do something exceptional, like be a flautist in the orchestra or the director of the orchestra and the head of debating society. | |
| Apparently the New York Times talked about one young man who didn't get into Harvard, Yale, Princeton and Cornell because he was all of those things and he was disappointed because he believed in the American meritocracy. | |
| Well, I hate to tell you this, but having been at Cornell, having been at Cornell Med School and Harvard, I can categorically tell you that they are highly discriminating against Jews, Baptists, Blacks, Hispanics, and Asian Americans. | |
| Oh, they can tell you they're liberal. | |
| They can tell you they don't discriminate against anyone, but they have a factor called personality, Empathy gets along with others, which is a fudge factor to make sure that they can discriminate against any particular group. | |
| Let me give you an example. | |
| In the class of 2021 at Harvard, you will have approximately 14% blacks, 12% Hispanics, and 21 to 22% Asian Americans. | |
| Now that's absurd. | |
| Because the Asian Americans at MIT or Purdue or any engineering school dominate that school by 50%. | |
| You already know there's discrimination going on among those schools in the Ivy League. | |
| I happen to know that's true. | |
| When I went to Cornell in 1960, graduated in 1964, there were fewer than 10% of the Jews in a class of over 1,000. | |
| Now, how do I know that? | |
| Because we were rushed the second year by fraternities. | |
| And if you were rushed by a Christian fraternity, which I was, I was not allowed to go to them because I was Jewish. | |
| But it ended up, I didn't really care to go to any fraternity. | |
| The point of the fact was at that particular point in time in 1960s, I had won a New York State Regents Scholarship. | |
| So 800 out of 2 million people in New York State, we could decide where we wanted to go. | |
| So Cornell had no choice in my being and selecting them to be my school. | |
| I really learned very little at Cornell. | |
| Four years was a waste of time. | |
| I learned nothing about general education. | |
| I learned nothing about pre-medicine. | |
| But I went through the kabuki of the school. | |
| Then, in order to go to Cornell University Medical College, which was number one in anti-Semitism in New York City at Cornell University Medical School or New York Hospital, I again scored high on the New York State Medical and Dental Regency exam, so I really came in again with my own scholarship and my own tuition. | |
| So I could choose them. | |
| The point of fact in this whole system is that you, an Asian American or Hispanic or black, you have to game the system of education. | |
| You're not going to learn anything. | |
| What you have to do is get the grades and control the process in which you're in. | |
| Let me quote to you Madonna, who said the following, You may consider me ambitious, you may consider me ruthless, and you may call me a bitch. | |
| That's how you discriminate against me. | |
| But you know what? | |
| That's okay. | |
| And for me, that's also okay. | |
| Good night and good luck. |
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