AACE Urges Unfairly Rejected Asian American Students to File Complaint and/or Join in SFFA Lawsuit against Medical Schools A. File Complaint with the Office for Civil Rights, the U.S. Department of Education Despite the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark rulings in SFFA v. Harvard and SFFA v. UNC in 2023, which banned the use of race and race proxies… Read More »
Press Release: AACE Urges the U.S. Department of Education Investigate the Appalling Discrimination against Stanley Zhong Livingston, New Jersey: On October 30, 2023, the Asian American Coalition for Education (AACE), a national organization that advocates for equal rights and opportunities in education, sent a letter to Ms. Catherine Lhamon, Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Department of Education, urging… Read More »
Each year, many Asian-American applicants with excellent extra-curricular activities, competition medals, extraordinary SAT scores, and high GPAs are unfairly rejected by Ivy League universities, who illegally use quotas, racially-differentiated standards and stereotypes to discriminate against Asian-American applicants. On average, after adjusting extracurricular activities, Asian-American students have to score 140-450 points higher on SATexams than students of other races… Read More »
For Immediate Release August 24, 2016 Livingston, New Jersey: Asian American Coalition for Education (AACE) has issued the attached letter to Ms. Catherine Lhamon, Assistant Secretary of the Office for Civil Rights (OCR), U.S. Department of Education. The letter requests her office to launch an immediate and objective investigation into a recent complaint filed by Hubert Zhao, an… Read More »
Supporting Discriminated-against Asian American Students in Filing Individual Complaints In this fall session, the U.S. Supreme Court will re-hear Fisher v. University of Texas. The holding from that case will be of critical importance, possibly eliminating race as a factor in college admissions, which has been a major source of discriminations against Asian American applicants. In order to… Read More »