who keeps calling me a "typical asian"?

[Bluntman]

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Yes there are overachievers but please remember that if these people didn't exist, then we wouldn't have people like Bill Gates today.

Last I checked, Bill Gates dropped out of Harvard undergrad. 😉

 

[gujuDoc]

Oh and to people who have no life other then to bash people on their profiles, please get a life!!!!!!

 

[jebus]

Last I checked, Bill Gates dropped out of Harvard undergrad. 😉

Then he got arrested and looked very happy about it.

That's one smiley looking kid. OP, the moral is go get arrested and you will be successful, too.

 

[Bluntman]

Then he got arrested and looked very happy about it.

That's one smiley looking kid. OP, the moral is go get arrested and you will be successful, too.

Priceless!

 

[pattayapus]

You're only a typical asian if you live in San Francisco and attended Lowell HIghschool and then stanford or berkeley for college. 😀 just kidding.

o my lord, i never expected so much support! i almost feel a little embarrassed, because i made a big (well, a medium) deal out of nothing...but it's really good to know there are so many awesome people out there, and glad this conversation was at least interesting to some people! 🙂

and just one note to pacboy: wow, how'd you know?? i was born and raised in san francisco, went to lowell, and then to stanford (and my only other choice would have been berkeley). uh oh, i think i've ruined my anonymity once and for all, on SDN...maybe the schools i'm waitlisted at will find me, read my posts, find out UCSF was my top choice, and reject me after all. hehe, no--juuus kidding. 🙂 don't want to jinx myself.

i love you guys!! 😍

 

[Risa]

Oh and to people who have no life other then to bash people on their profiles, please get a life!!!!!!

Amen.

Don't listen to them, Patty, you rock and they're jealous. I think there must be a few people out there whose purpose in life is to go from mdapps profile to profile and write mean things. Whatever... that's their problem.

 

[gujuDoc]

Then he got arrested and looked very happy about it.

That's one smiley looking kid. OP, the moral is go get arrested and you will be successful, too.

Ok even though that was made against my post, I have to say you made me out loud.

My point was that people who work hard make it in this world and there's no reason to bash on them.

But that is hillarious!!!!!! 😛

 

[potato51]

This all reminds me of the "Average Asian" sketches they do on MAD TV .

As for your haters, pattayapus - ignore 'em. It's pretty funny when people imply the same about me even if I fit hardly any of the stereotypes associated with Indian people. The main one being that my parents pressured me when in fact my family is anti-education.

 

[red dot]

Then he got arrested and looked very happy about it.

That's one smiley looking kid. OP, the moral is go get arrested and you will be successful, too.

did just happen to find this?


OP -- i think it's a good thing. get pissed off. because now you know for a fact that there are people who actually think those thoughts but are too ***** to say it to your face. and it's better that you know a good percentage of your fellow classmates are like that as well, rather than not. it's always better to be on your guard.
**** 'em.
edit: i'm asian but i don't know what/where kimball is. explain?

 

[pattayapus]

did just happen to find this?


OP -- i think it's a good thing. get pissed off. because now you know for a fact that there are people who actually think those thoughts but are too ***** to say it to your face. and it's better that you know a good percentage of your fellow classmates are like that as well, rather than not. it's always better to be on your guard.
**** 'em.
edit: i'm asian but i don't know what/where kimball is. explain?

o kimball's just one of the dorms at stanford...someone wrote that he bets i've lived there. but now that i think about it...i don't get it either. maybe it's the historically "asian" dorm, i'm not sure..??

 

[TypeA]

Call them nerds if you will, but remember that the nerds may be your boss someday.

My docs are all of the nerdy persuasion...and I trust them with my life. 😉

 

[Overlap12]

heh i like the dog, ahumdinger...yes yes...

as for the piano, here's my story: i agreed accidentally in second grade to start lessons, and every night for eight years plugged my headphones into my digital keyboard, to pretend i was practicing, when actually i was propping up nancy drew or anne of green gables plunk in front of beethoven...i finally got the guts, in eighth grade, to tell my mom i quit...the final result being thousands and thousands of dollars down the drain...

so yes, people, maybe you all have me pegged..ah well. 🙂

Haha, I think your hard work and excellent grades should be admired, not frowned upon because you happen to be Asian. I have a lot of Asian friends that aren't the top of their class so it's tough for me to make a generalization about all Asians. I do think it's kind of weird that your parents made you play piano when you didn't like it. I hope you let your kids decide who they want to be instead of raising them to be a doctor or lawyer "'cause those are the only acceptable careers for an educated person."

 

[tulane06]

Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent.

 

[Medikit]

Congratulations on getting into Davis, I really wanted to go there. If someone were to call me a stereotypical whitey I'd tell them "yeah, I totally have white skin and everything, it's crazy how white I am".

As others have said a central point that "Hillary" was trying to make is that your activties in undergrad outside of school have less significance because your central reason for doing them was not strictly for the benefit of other people or for personal growth. And somehow "Hillary" thinks Harvard and other schools knew that. No one knows your personal reasons for doing these things but let's be honest, a lot of people look for extracurriculars that help their application and make them look and feel responsible. It's natural to think about it when you are applying to something competitive. The cool thing is that inspite of whatever degree perfectly natural and normal "selfishness" was involved people often do learn more about themselves and grow from their experiences while simultaneously doing something good. Seems like a good deal either way to me.

 

[meany8888]

Hey patty, those comments on your mdapps profile bothered me too. So here's my message to the "kimball-classic pianist" comment:

It's easy for you to hate the premed gunners (asian or not), the ones who you notice work all the time at Green and ask OCD questions at bio42 section. You may also think the asians who have fun in ways you don't relate to are weird - playing Taboo on Friday nights... not touching alcoholic drinks... calling home every day. But at least they are genuine.

The mainstream is filled with phonies, insecure in their own way. Cop-out fuzzy pre-med majors who claim they want to revamp the healthcare system only to complain about how boring and useless their humbio lectures were. If they were so fervent about their beliefs.. wouldn't they complain less? The ones who spend friday night vomiting all over the front steps of kappa sig, going home to catch some STD, only to put on their happy "i'm here for you" face when volunteering sat morning at the VA. People wasting their lives playing beirut at suites/toyon deluded into thinking that they are living the life. so gee.. what's so great about being "normal"?

 

[macadamianut]

You're only a typical asian if over half your friends are Asian (and therefore way out of step with the national average). Maybe there's an excuse is high school because of location, but there's no excuse in college.

Oh, and yes, I'm Asian.

 

[Bluntman]

The ones who spend friday night vomiting all over the front steps of kappa sig, going home to catch some STD, only to put on their happy "i'm here for you" face when volunteering sat morning at the VA. People wasting their lives playing beirut at suites/toyon deluded into thinking that they are living the life. so gee.. what's so great about being "normal"?

👎 Whoa now: Not only do I love beirut, but I have also certainly had my fair share of nights when my friends have had to take me home after a night of drinking. My life is hardly diluted or wasted, and I can guarantee you I'll be as successful as the "the asians who have fun in ways don't relate to". Your post is worthless - no better than someone giving Patty **** for being a "typical" asian.

I enjoyed doing college my way, and I'm sure you did too. To each his own, dude.

 

[lastrun82]

(ex-)resident of kimball here
re: the mdapps comment, kimball never threw the most publicized parties on campus when i lived there (a few years ago), but definitely some of the crazier ones

if you take a few seconds to look beyond the lack of double eyelids, humbio major, and parents who forced them to play piano, you'll find that asian americans are just as diverse and interesting as any other group
e.g. if you stop after reading my transcript, you'd see that i'm an engineer/premed and would probably picture some sort of a cold-blooded, test-taking mutant machine who plays xbox 360 when he's not studying for usmle step 1 as a premed

but if you actually got to know me, you'd learn that i was a ski bum for a season, throw a decent spiral (football), and grew up in a town where there was a kkk rally when i was little
all i'm saying is it's easy to write someone off as 'boooring' based on her one paragraph mdapps profile, but it's just dumb to conclude that there's nothing else to know about her

 

[gujuDoc]

(ex-)resident of kimball here
re: the mdapps comment, kimball never threw the most publicized parties on campus when i lived there (a few years ago), but definitely some of the crazier ones

if you take a few seconds to look beyond the lack of double eyelids, humbio major, and parents who forced them to play piano, you'll find that asian americans are just as diverse and interesting as any other group
e.g. if you stop after reading my transcript, you'd see that i'm an engineer/premed and would probably picture some sort of a cold-blooded, test-taking mutant machine who plays xbox 360 when he's not studying for usmle step 1 as a premed

but if you actually got to know me, you'd learn that i was a ski instructor/bum for a season, throw a decent spiral (football), and grew up in a town where there was a kkk rally when i was little
all i'm saying is it's easy to write someone off as 'boooring' based on her one paragraph mdapps profile, but it's just dumb to conclude that there's nothing else to know about her

That is exactly what I'm saying. I think its unfair for people to judge based on the mdapps profile because obviously no one is going to advertise whether they've ever been drunk, what they do in their free time, or how they spend time with their friends on their MDapps profile. People use that profile as a resume and a resume does not include the parties you've been to or the things you do in your free time.

 

[QuikClot]

I play the piano but it isn't because it is the Asian thing to do. I actually wanted to learn the drums and started band in middle school but couldn't keep up with the beat and playing another instrument wasn't an option because I couldn't blow into the instruments which involved you using your mouth. So I learned the piano instead. I wouldn't say I did it to be like the other Indian kids who learned it. I did it because I genuinely wanted to learn how to play it.

I think its sick that people have to make stereotypical racist comments about people they don't even know well.

Yes there are overachievers but please remember that if these people didn't exist, then we wouldn't have people like Bill Gates today.

It is these people who often succeed the most.

Call them nerds if you will, but remember that the nerds may be your boss someday.

Wasn't Bill a college dropout?

We shouldn't confuse what Richard Rodriguez called the "scholarship student" with genuies like Gates. The people who end up changing the world have their minds on things besides pulling down straight A's.

As for the comment . . . you are right to be angry. You know who makes these ignorant comments? It's those damn Jews!

 

[noonday]

1.) Bill Gates wasn't a drop out. He was expelled from Harvard for cheating, because he had set up a bunch of ghost accounts to get more computer space/time.

2.) We all get stereotyped in all kinds of ways all the time. too young. too old. race. gender. orientation. and personally, if I'm honest about how I'm stereotyped, it's for good reasons because more often than not it's true of my demographic as a whole. and I think it's the same for all stereotypes. They are stereotypes for a reason -- because more often than not it's a trait that's true of more people than not in a given demographic. And most groups have as many positive stereotypes as negative ones. You can't have the good without the bad. And that doesn't mean any of it is true of you as an individual. And you just have to accept that and not take it personally.

3.) the poster who askedd about being young (19/20). I'd predict you have about as much trouble as I do being old (30). Some schools will care. Some won't. As for what (stereotypically) can be sen as wrong with it: you've not a lot of the life experiences of older people, less ability to relate to a wide range of people, possibility that your motivation is unclear or rooted in parental influence, patients being uncomfortable trusting their lives to someone who can't even rent a car (and sometimes, even legally drink), etc. (to be fair, some of the stereotypes about older students apply to me: a little set in my ways, a little bitter, definite potential conflicts with kids/partner, etc.).

 

[gujuDoc]

Wasn't Bill a college dropout?

We shouldn't confuse what Richard Rodriguez called the "scholarship student" with genuies like Gates. The people who end up changing the world have their minds on things besides pulling down straight A's.

As for the comment . . . you are right to be angry. You know who makes these ignorant comments? It's those damn Jews!

Wow, no offense, but we've already finished this issue. See the above pages, because I laughed at my own post after someone corrected me. I also pointed out, that I wasn't so much referring to college, but the fact that those who succeed are the ones who work the hardest whether it is in a building a business or in school. But that's moot point because it was already discussed.

Now back to the rest of the post.

 

[QuikClot]

Wow, no offense, but we've already finished this issue. See the above pages, because I laughed at my own post after someone corrected me. I also pointed out, that I wasn't so much referring to college, but the fact that those who succeed are the ones who work the hardest whether it is in a building a business or in school. But that's moot point because it was already discussed.

On the internet, no point is ever moot. Or is it the other way around?

I get that you're tired of being corrected, but you must admit, you asked for it. And I'm pretty sure it's not the person who made the mistaken analogy who gets to decide when the subject is "finished." Buurah-ha-ha!

I made the point -- which you missed -- that the kind of personality it takes to suceed in formal education and get institutional approval is not necessarily the sort of personality that is enormously successful in the wider world. Your mileage may vary.

Not to mention I introduced an entirely new form of bigotry to the thread -- slyly conflating the past discrimination against studious Jews in medicine with that against studious Asians today.

But you hate on my post nevertheless. Sigh. A prophet has no honor in his own forum . . .

 

[gujuDoc]

On the internet, no point is ever moot. Or is it the other way around?

I get that you're tired of being corrected, but you must admit, you asked for it. And I'm pretty sure it's not the person who made the mistaken analogy who gets to decide when the subject is "finished." Buurah-ha-ha!

I made the point -- which you missed -- that the kind of personality it takes to suceed in formal education and get institutional approval is not necessarily the sort of personality that is enormously successful in the wider world. Your mileage may vary.

Not to mention I introduced an entirely new form of bigotry to the thread -- slyly conflating the past discrimination against studious Jews in medicine with that against studious Asians today.

But you hate on my post nevertheless. Sigh. A prophet has no honor in his own forum . . .

Listen I'm not trying to come off as angry. That is not my tone at all. I see the point of the rest of your post. I was just pointing out that I already clarified my older post and took with stride what others said, which you might have seen if you read the earlier posts. Again, I don't mean it in an offensive way. I'm just clarifying. Thanks.

But you do make a good point with the rest of your post.

P.S. I realize my post may come off as angry when you read it. I'm sorry the internet does no justice to allowing me to convey what I'm trying to say without it possibly coming off in the wrong way.

 

[MarzMD]

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The mainstream is filled with phonies, insecure in their own way. Cop-out fuzzy pre-med majors who claim they want to revamp the healthcare system only to complain about how boring and useless their humbio lectures were. If they were so fervent about their beliefs.. wouldn't they complain less? The ones who spend friday night vomiting all over the front steps of kappa sig, going home to catch some STD, only to put on their happy "i'm here for you" face when volunteering sat morning at the VA. People wasting their lives playing beirut at suites/toyon deluded into thinking that they are living the life. so gee.. what's so great about being "normal"?

So we should respond to 1 stereotype with another?
👎

 

[Risa]

👎 Whoa now: Not only do I love beirut, but I have also certainly had my fair share of nights when my friends have had to take me home after a night of drinking. My life is hardly diluted or wasted, and I can guarantee you I'll be as successful as the "the asians who have fun in ways don't relate to". Your post is worthless - no better than someone giving Patty **** for being a "typical" asian.

I enjoyed doing college my way, and I'm sure you did too. To each his own, dude.

Hmm yeah. Gotta defend the beirut here. A quality game, quality.

Taboo is also a quality game.

Now if only we could combine the two.... (insert maniacal genius smiley here!)

 

[riceman04]

You're only a typical asian if over half your friends are Asian (and therefore way out of step with the national average). Maybe there's an excuse is high school because of location, but there's no excuse in college.

Oh, and yes, I'm Asian.

Then I guess I am a typical african american male b/c over half of my friends are afr. amer. 🙄 🙄 🙄

 

[lobster M.D.]

this beirut bashing has me concerned about with whom i am going to have to spend these next four years, beirut is always such a fun time, but i guess to some so is a rousing round of cs at a lan party

 

[it.]

DAEWOO...BOUNCE!

 

[meany8888]

hey, i hold nothing against beirut, i actually played in the recent tourney and made it pretty far. All I'm saying is that the people who are judgmental about other groups that they don't understand (specifically the guy who made the kimball/violin comment) definitely have their own flaws. To illustrate the point, I mentioned some of the horrible things I myself have seen happen on the row as a regular.

I was pretty pissed off this afternoon upon reading the comments on patty's profile so my response sounds nasty.. sorry.. don't read it that way.

this beirut bashing has me concerned about with whom i am going to have to spend these next four years, beirut is always such a fun time, but i guess to some so is a rousing round of cs at a lan party

 

[infiniti]

In response to a post above- Stereotypes are not always representative of a group. This is so because the people who stereotype have made up their minds and will always (subconsciously or not) find a way to make new situations parralel to their preconcieved ideas.

Stereotypes are especially damaging when people have to rely on them in strange situations. By strange, I mean unfamiliar. Let's say until now, I have never met an "Asian Person". Since I have no experience with Asian people, my interaction will totally be based upon things that I have heard about the group. So instead of asking "are you up for march madness", you will ask questions like "Did you understand the lecture yesterday". Basically, your stereotypes limit your interaction with the guy/girl to a certain type. Since you only ask certain type of questions, you only get certain types of answers. Your stereotype prevents you from knowing about other aspects of that person's life. Aspects that, if experienced will contradict the stereotypes

 

[jack.bauer]

While you guys all hate to be labeled as something so generalized like "typical asian", I must admit as a communitarian that the Asian stereotype tends to be correct. For example, I live in a room in Harvard with 7 Asians (including South Asians). They are all graduating top of the class at school, almost all were presidents of their respective cultural societes, and the non-pre meds will be making over 100,000 next year. In fact, at Harvard there is a saying that you can measure the difficulty of a class by looking at the proportion of the asians in the class. In general, it has proven to be quite true and I've tried my best to avoid those classes 🙂 I believe that the idea of the true individual is false and that a huge part of who we are is based on the cultural values with which we have been raised up. It makes Asians tend to be more studious than those of some other cultures, mostly because they share the value of academia over others.

 

[Chinorean]

While you guys all hate to be labeled as something so generalized like "typical asian", I must admit as a communitarian that the Asian stereotype tends to be correct. For example, I live in a room in Harvard with 7 Asians (including South Asians). They are all graduating top of the class at school, almost all were presidents of their respective cultural societes, and the non-pre meds will be making over 100,000 next year. In fact, at Harvard there is a saying that you can measure the difficulty of a class by looking at the proportion of the asians in the class. In general, it has proven to be quite true and I've tried my best to avoid those classes 🙂 I believe that the idea of the true individual is false and that a huge part of who we are is based on the cultural values with which we have been raised up. It makes Asians tend to be more studious than those of some other cultures, mostly because they share the value of academia over others.

Hm...but you can't make a generalization that all Asians are at the top of the class and are presidents of their cultural societies because only one person at a time could be at the top! One could argue that from your small sample size, you tend to room with highly motivated people who happen to be Asian. I'm guessing that a lot of Harvard grads went there for business and law and will go on to make over $100,000.

 

[UCDavisdude]

holla

 

[AcousticDoc]

lol, I've heard the class difficulty gauge by Asian count as well! I read an article a few years back about parents complaining to UCI administration about classes being unfair because of too many asians as well. Hey, does anyone think the asian-american race will be phased out in 2 or 3 generations?

 

[91946]

o my lord, i never expected so much support! i almost feel a little embarrassed, because i made a big (well, a medium) deal out of nothing...but it's really good to know there are so many awesome people out there, and glad this conversation was at least interesting to some people! 🙂

and just one note to pacboy: wow, how'd you know?? i was born and raised in san francisco, went to lowell, and then to stanford (and my only other choice would have been berkeley). uh oh, i think i've ruined my anonymity once and for all, on SDN...maybe the schools i'm waitlisted at will find me, read my posts, find out UCSF was my top choice, and reject me after all. hehe, no--juuus kidding. 🙂 don't want to jinx myself.

i love you guys!! 😍

A pretty good guess huh? lol, I went to Berkeley and almost all the asians I know are from either Lowell or Lynbrook so I'm assuming that it must be like that at stanford also. By the way, I'm supposed to hate on you because you're from furd, but stanford was my first choice had they let me in. 😛

 

[jack.bauer]

Hm...but you can't make a generalization that all Asians are at the top of the class and are presidents of their cultural societies because only one person at a time could be at the top! One could argue that from your small sample size, you tend to room with highly motivated people who happen to be Asian. I'm guessing that a lot of Harvard grads went there for business and law and will go on to make over $100,000.

Statistically speaking, Asians at Harvard are over-represented in the hardcore sciences/pre-med track by about 30%. That's significant enough to flag down as a "generalization". A recent study also found that East Asians at Harvard have higher gpa averages than the norm. From my experience with my Asian roommates I find that they study far too much 🙂 Damn I wish I were like them. They're so successful.

 

[tulane06]

It's not beirut - it's beer pong damnit!

 

[infiniti]

Well, the point is that Asian students that aren't the absolute top (these are the majority) have to live with the frustration of not living up to the stereotype. I have Asian (sorry for lumping such a large group) friends that are about as good as you can get, academically speaking. The rest however are great students, but aren't the absolutely best. Such situation can be quite frustrating.

It is good to do well, but stereotypes can put unnecessary burden on students.

 

[PariPari]

It's not beirut - it's beer pong damnit!

I second this......I thought Beirut was some new name for a video game, but google tells me some ppl believe beer pong=beruit....

That's odd about measure difficulty of class by the asians in it, b/c from personal experience they're in there b/c they have old tests dating back to the university's inception........IT's not a bad thing, using resources to your advantage, the same thing happens w/ the test-bank in sororities & frats, so don't start in on asians, everybody does it.

 

[swifty100850]

DAEWOO...BOUNCE!

My name is TAAAANK and I got a TRICKED OUT DAEWOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!

 

[swifty100850]

It's not beirut - it's beer pong damnit!

yeah, really! it's beer pong. why do people call it beirut?

 

[amandil]

Statistically speaking, Asians at Harvard are over-represented in the hardcore sciences/pre-med track by about 30%. That's significant enough to flag down as a "generalization."

While I would not argue with this, I think that Harvard kids in general tend to be over-achievers (yeah, stating the obvious) and feel the need to be the president/editor-in-chief/head honcho of whatever group they happen to participate in. Hence the proliferation of student groups (isn't it around 2-300?) so that everyone can be an officer of something. I don't mean to be overly cynical; I do think that students enjoy and are interested in furthering the goals of their groups. But, for example, does the student body really need 10 a capella groups??

 

[red dot]

While I would not argue with this, I think that Harvard kids in general tend to be over-achievers (yeah, stating the obvious) and feel the need to be the president/editor-in-chief/head honcho of whatever group they happen to participate in. Hence the proliferation of student groups (isn't it around 2-300?) so that everyone can be an officer of something. I don't mean to be overly cynical; I do think that students enjoy and are interested in furthering the goals of their groups. But, for example, does the student body really need 10 a capella groups??

serious? hahahahaha!

 

[bigsilvo]

yea i was actually trying to say that i am proud of being a typical asian, and that's what i find so strange about the comments...they implied there was something wrong with it... 🙂[/QUOTE

Hey girl, no worries, I'm Italian and the only reason I got into school is because of my "goombah" last name. Also because my family is in the mob, we have greasy hair, we shout alot, we talk with our hands, say "fughetaboutit", always have a NY accent, call pizza "pie", and our names all end in "ie" (eg. Paulie, Philly, Johnny, Jackie, Joey, Nicki, Frankie, Vinnie.)
Hey, you didn't get those killer stats because you're Asian, you got em because you worked your ass of and you should be proud of it.

 

[jbrice1639]

yeah, really! it's beer pong. why do people call it beirut?

because they're confused 😎

 

[Risa]

yeah, really! it's beer pong. why do people call it beirut?

you're totally right... i usually call it beer pong too. i guess if i'm comfortable calling it beirut... that makes me bilingual? dang, i shoulda put that on my amcas 😎

(i'm determined to derail this thread firmly into drinking games, btw 😀 )

 

[iriechic14]

If you don't want someone calling you a typical Asian, then stop being a typical Asian. Plus, what's wrong with being a hardworking, high achieving, piano playing, glasses wearing Asian? Face it, you're Asian, so you're going to inherently possess some of the same characteristics as other Asians. You should be pround of being called a typical Asian, because the typical Asian is a successful one.

I understand her dismay because you have to analyze this phrase in the context of the post on her MDApps profile. The post that criticized her for a typical Asian was clearly meant to be derogatory telling her that she was boring and had nothing special because she did standard types of community service and research. Please.
The reality is Asians have to meet a higher standard due to reverse discrimination in the process. Perhaps, if she wasn't Asian you would have had more success in the process and would have been praised for the things she's done. Motive is less important than result and she has done great things.

 

[theunderdog]

yeah, really! it's beer pong. why do people call it beirut?

wtf is beirut?? i seriously thought u guys were talking about a city or a pc game or something. and yes, it's called beer pong!

 

[jebus]

The reality is Asians have to meet a higher standard due to reverse discrimination in the process. Perhaps, if she wasn't Asian you would have had more success in the process and would have been praised for the things she's done. Motive is less important than result and she has done great things.

What's the difference between reverse discrimination and forwards discrimination?
What's up with wanting to be a victim, too? When did it become attractive to paint oneself in such a depressing light? She didn't get her results because of discrimination: she got them because that's what she earned. She had power over her life and she earned an acceptance to UC Davis. I think she did pretty damn well for herself.
Perhaps if she weren't asian she wouldn't have any legs? Frankly, I think jumping to that conclusion is just as appropriate as saying she would have had more success as a non-asian.
I agree, she's a typical asian. You have eyes, a nose, a couple of ears, probably a whole bunch of teeth, too. I bet a whole bunch of asians have all of those. So typical...