This is a ‘part 1′ because this is a very big very thorny issue which concerns affirmative action and much more .这是一个'的一部分， 1 ' ，因为这是一个非常大的非常棘手的问题，关注的肯定行动和更多的工作 。 As such I will in the near future be writing a ‘part 2′ which directly addresses any AA-related concerns I’m having about this topic here… but for now, my understanding of the issue:这样，我会在不久的将来，写'的一部分， 2 ' ，其中直接涉及任何机管局有关的问题我在有关此主题在这里… …但现在，我所理解的问题：

Pulitzer prize winner普立兹奖得主 Daniel Golden wrote a piece about “whether elite colleges give Asian-American students a fair shake” in last Saturday’s Wall Street Journal.丹尼尔黄金写了一块约“是否名牌大学给了亚洲和美国的学生一个公平的动摇”在上周六的华尔街日报。 It focused specifically on the case of one Jian Li, a Chinese permanent legal resident who went to a NJ public school having emigrated at age 4.它的重点是专门就案件之一，李健，中国常驻的合法居民，谁去了新泽西州公立学校后，移民在4岁。 Mr. Li recently filed a complaint against Princeton University for rejecting him through the Dept. Education’s Office for Civil Rights; he is currently a freshman at Yale.李先生最近提交了一份投诉，普林斯顿大学的拒绝，他通过研究教育办公室的公民权利，他目前是一年级在耶鲁。 (nb, this is not a tort case, it is a complaint about what Li feels was discrimination.) （注意，这不是一个民事侵权案件，这是一个投诉什么李觉得是歧视） 。

This is an issue that throws a lot of people off sometimes, because some people confuse a) Affirmative action with b) race-based discrimination.这是一个问题抛出一个很多人的小康，有时，因为有些人混淆一）平权行动与二）基于种族的歧视。 Private universities in the United States are not required to have the same ‘objective’ qualifications that businesses or real estate have; race discrimination is only happening if there a pattern (in this case acceptance / rejection) unique to one race or ethnicity on the basis of unfair (nonstandard) comparisons–hence the problem with Berkeley’s law program back in the early 90s, which took Asians out of the general pool and compared them against each other.私立大学在美国是不须有相同的'客观'资格的企业或房地产有;种族歧视，只是发生的事情，如果有一个模式（在这种情况下接受/拒绝）独特的一个种族或民族的基础上不公平的（非标准）比较-因此，问题与大学柏克莱分校的法律程式，早在90年代初，这是亚洲人摆脱一般游泳池和比较，他们对对方。


A quote from the article to start us off here:引用的文章开始我们小康的位置：

The Office for Civil Rights initially rejected Mr. Li’s complaint due to “insufficient” evidence.办公室的公民权利最初拒绝了李先生的投诉，由于“不足”的证据。 Mr. Li appealed, citing a white high-school classmate admitted to Princeton despite lower test scores and grades.李先生呼吁为由，白色的高校的同班同学承认，普林斯顿，尽管较低的测验分数及职系。 The office notified him late last month that it would look into the case.办公室通知他上个月底，它将研究的情况。

His complaint seeks to suspend federal financial assistance to Princeton until the university “discontinues discrimination against Asian-Americans in all forms by eliminating race preferences, legacy preferences, and athlete preferences.” Legacy preference is the edge most elite colleges, including Princeton, give to alumni children.他的投诉，旨在暂停联邦财政援助，以普林斯顿大学，直到大学“终止歧视亚裔美国人在一切形式消除种族偏好，传统的偏好，和运动员偏好” 。遗留下来的偏好是最边缘的精英学院，包括普林斯顿大学，给校友子女。 The Office for Civil Rights has the power to terminate such financial aid but usually works with colleges to resolve cases rather than taking enforcement action.办公室的公民权利有权力终止这种财政援助，但通常与工程学院，以解决个案，而非采取执法行动。

That more or less sets the stage, but doesn’t answer my biggest question about Mr. Li’s claims: Jian Li had a 2400 SAT I and excellent SAT IIs, but what else was there?更多或更少集阶段，但不回答我的最大的问题约李官奇的索赔：李健了2400年星期六，我和良好的星期六的非法入境者，但还有什么是有？ He had good grades, so he was clearly academically qualified.他曾好成绩，因此他显然是学历。 Yet how else does he compare to this white applicant from his school that was accepted?然而，否则，如何，他是否比较这份白皮书申请人从他的学校，这是接受呢？ Reading about this story, I just want more facts, and I can’t seem to find them anywhere.阅读关于这个故事，我只想更多的事实，我似乎无法找到它们的任何地方。 While considering the subjective criteria that Princeton and other elite US schools use to gauge applicants, numbers alone are not enough to form a complete comparison.同时，考虑到主观的标准，普林斯顿大学和其他精英，美国学校使用，以了解申请人的，数字本身是不够的，以形成一个完整的比较。

Next question: Why did Li sue Princeton, rather than Penn, Stanford, MIT, or Harvard, all of which rejected him (unfairly, he felt) after wait listing him?接下来的问题：为什么李控告普林斯顿，而非西恩潘，斯坦福大学，麻省理工学院或哈佛大学，所有这些拒绝他（不公平，他认为）后，等待上市的他呢？

“He ultimately focused his complaint against Princeton after reading a 2004 study by three Princeton researchers concluding that an Asian-American applicant needed to score 50 points higher on the SAT than other applicants to have the same chance of admission to an elite university.” “他最终的重点是他的投诉后，普林斯顿大学读2004年的一项研究是由三普林斯顿的研究人员得出结论认为，一个亚洲和美国的申请人需要评分50分的较高的SAT考试比其他申请人有相同的机会入学的精英大学” 。

I’ve read that study; it’sa perfectly good study, but it doesn’t negate the fact that at the ‘top-tier’ American schools stats are not the only thing being considered.我已阅读研究;这是绝对良好的学习，但这并不否定事实，即在'顶级'美国学校的统计是不是唯一的事，正在考虑中。 This is why when affirmative action is banned in some public institutions, notably the University of California (which we have data for) the Asian-American enrollment goes up–these schools rely on stats alone much more than do these top schools.这就是为什么当扶持行动是禁止在一些公共机构，特别是美国加州大学（我们的数据）亚洲和美国的报名上升-这些学校的依赖于统计，仅远不止这些顶尖学校。

So, here is what it looks like to me, at first glance: Li has a 2400 SAT and great stats overall, and is waitlisted at then rejected by lots of good schools before two also very great schools accept him (Yale and Caltech). 所以，这里是什么，它看起来像对我来说，乍看之下：李有2400星期六和伟大的统计总体而言，是在轮候，然后拒绝了很多好学校之前，双方还非常大学校接受他（耶鲁大学和加州理工学院） 。 What happens next I don’t understand.接下来该怎么做我不明白。 HYPSM are known to reject plenty of perfect scorers–where exactly the basis for discrimination comes in I don’t understand, because these schools do not operate on the basis of stats alone. hypsm是众所周知的拒绝很多完美的分手，哪里正是歧视的基础是在我不明白，因为这些学校没有的基础上运作的统计，单。 They care about extracurricular and leadership and all these things.他们关心的课外活动和领导以及所有这些东西。 I can see a plausible concern in general, but not one stemming from his case alone.我可以看到一个可能的关注，在一般，但没有一个源于他的案件。

“Ah,” you say, “they do care about those things, but perhaps they just use them as an excuse or subjective ‘reason’ to reject those applicants they feel are undesirable in too great a quantity–perhaps Asians are now in the same position that Jews once were!” “啊， ”你说， “他们所关心的那些事情，但也许他们只是利用他们作为借口，或主观的'理由 ' 拒绝的申请人，他们觉得是不可取的 ，在过大的数量，也许亚洲人现在在相同的犹太人的立场，即一旦被“ ！ See again Malcomb Gladwell’s old piece in the New Yorker见再次malcomb格莱德威尔的旧片，在新的纽约客 on modern elite college admissions which alludes back to Jerome Karabel’s The Chosen (I keep plugging that book because it keeps being good!).对现代精英大学招生，其中提到了回杰罗姆卡拉伯的选择（我一直堵这本书，因为它一直被好！ ） 。 We had an assembly speaker who brought this up when discussing bias in objective hiring–people find “excuses” to hire one candidate (towards the bias, ie Caucasian) regardless of whether that particular ‘excuse’ was being sought after in the applicant process (ie, experience, or skill, or whatever difference can be found between the two candidates).我们有一个议会议长谁带来了这个时候讨论的偏见，在客观租用-人民找到“借口”聘请一名候选人（对偏见，即白人）不论该特别是'借口'正在寻求后，在申请人的进程（即，经验或技能，或什么差异，可以发现两者之间候选人） 。 But…但…

Not necessarily.不一定。 Show me proof–show me the memos and letters we have from old college presidents and admissions folks saying that there were too many Jews enrolling–show me that for Asian-Americans.显示我证明给我看备忘录和信件，我们从旧的大学校长和招生的乡亲说，有太多的犹太人招生-查看我说，为亚裔美国人。 I don’t have the evidence of a technical, legal discrimination–though I am happy to see there are sort of inquiries being made about it.我手边没有证据的技术，法律上的歧视-虽然我很高兴看到有排序的调查正在取得它。

However, this really only scratches the surface, because this is only looking at the purest facts I could find about the issue.不过，这真的只有刮痕，表面上，因为这是只有看精纯的事实，我可以找到有关的问题。 There is a bigger issue–the social ramifications of this question, and how Mr. Li’s complaint jives with other proposals, initiatives, lobbying groups and so forth.有一个更大的问题的社会后果，这个问题，以及如何李先生的投诉jives与其他的建议，倡议，游说团体，等等。 The internet is互联网 buzzing热闹 about this article, actually.有关这篇专题文章的，其实。 I’ll be writing more about it, but I was just trying to skirt the ‘AA good / bad’ question in this post and just talk about whether or not I thought Li necessarily had a case here.我会写更多地了解它，但我只是想穿裙子的'机管局好/坏'的问题，在这个职位和公正的谈论是否或不是，我以为李一定有一个案件在这里。 As an African American Jew, I think I have a slightly different perspective on this matter than Mr. Li or some of my peers.作为一个非洲裔美国犹太人，我觉得我有一个略有不同的角度来看这件事比李先生或我的一些同侪。 You’ll just have to wait a little bit to hear it…您只需要等待一点点听到…