Zili Zeng ASA002 A03 Week 2

When reading the first part of the book, "Taking Action: Asian American Faculty Against Injustices in Academic, personally I did not have a strong sense of how the academic environment is disadvantage for Asian American students since I have not yet experienced any formal type of unfair treat in my educational life studying in the United States. However, as I looked into the part "Misguided Stereotypes", I found that the discrimination, or unfair academic/working standard, might come from the biased stereotype that Asian Americans are "hard-workers, high achievers and economically success". I truly feel why the author claimed that such positive stereotype is a double-edge sword through the example of SAT scores.

Recalling the college application process back in high school, I remember that all my Asian friends, both Asian Americans and Asian internationals, typically had much higher SAT scores and higher GPAs than most of other American students. Nonetheless, the outcome is that those students with lower grades can still be admitted to the same level of universities that Asian American students did. Moreover, the Asian Americans and Asian internationals need to be much more overqualified than the university's standard requirement to get into the university, while some American students might just need to reach the minimum standard of entering the school. A statistics from the Harvard Crimson shows that Asian Americans need to achieve a SAT score that is about 100 points higher than the White students' average SAT scores. This result shows how the Asian Americans are treated unfairly due to the stereotypes on them.

Question: What's the positive aspect of Asian American's stereotype?

Source: 

The Harvard Crimson, "Asian-American Harvard Admits Earned Highest Average SAT Score of Any Racial Group From 1995 to 2013". October 22, 2018. 

https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2018/10/22/asian-american-admit-sat-scores/

Valverde, Kieu-Linh Caroline (2013) “Fight the Tower: A Call to Action of Women of Color in Academia”. Seattle Journal for Justice: Vol. 12: Iss. 2, Article 5. "Taking Action: Asian American Faculty Against Injustices in Academic"Retrieved from 

http://digitalcommons.law.seattleu.edu/sjsj/vol12/iss2/5