加州理工的例子让人们不禁要问:如果真不考虑肤色,完全按学生的素质录取,亚裔在美国一流大学中究竟要占到什么比例?我们不妨拿出另外一组参照。美国高中,除了公立、私立外,还有一种考试学校,如波士顿拉丁学校(Boston Latin),纽约的斯特伊弗桑特高中(Stuyvesant)、布朗士科学高中(Bronx High School of Science)、旧金山的罗威尔高中(Lowell)、弗吉尼亚的托马斯•杰佛逊高中(Thomas Jefferson High School)等等。这些学校属于公立,但必须经过激烈的入学竞争才能
“Fisher v. University of Texas”白人女生Abigail Noel Fisher 和 Rachel Multer Michalewicz 在2008年申请德州大学奥斯丁分校时被拒绝录取。由于发现有比她们成绩低的有色人种学生被录取,她们认为自己受到反向种族歧视,以宪法第十四修正案为依据,将学校告上法庭, 并进而要求推翻2003年 Grutter v Bollinger 对平权法案符合宪法的判决。官司在最高法院审判进行中。
现在的情况是,最高法院的九名法官中,Elena Kagan已经表示弃权,剩下的八人中,一般认为,John G. Roberts,Samuel A. Alito,Antonin Scalia 和 Clarence Thomas 会投票给 Fisher,而Sonia Sotomayor,Stephen Breyer,Ruth J B Ginsburg 会投给 Univ. of Texas。那么法官 Anthony M. Kennedy 则是摇摆票也是关键票。如果投票结果是4:4,2003年 Grutter v Bollinger 的判决无法推翻,Race-conscious 得以维持,根据惯例,二十年内,类似案件都不可再被讨论。也就是说,大学中种族区分将再持续二十年,如果投票结果是5:3,Fisher 获胜,那么2003年的判决被推翻,那么种族区分录取政策则宣告在学校录取中结束,这同时也可能终结了 Affirmative Action (AA) 在大学录取中所起的作用。
1 Harvard University United States 100.0
2 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) United States 87.6
3 University of Cambridge United Kingdom 81.3
4 University of Oxford United Kingdom 73.0
5 University of California, Berkeley United States 72.4
6 Stanford University United States 70.6
7 Princeton University United States 36.2
8 University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) United States 35.6
9 The University of Tokyo Japan 32.9
10 Yale University United States 32.8
11 California Institute of Technology (Caltech) United States 27.8
12 University of Michigan United States 22.4
13 Columbia University United States 21.4
14 University of Chicago United States 21.3
14 Imperial College London United Kingdom 21.3
16 University of Toronto Canada 18.8
17 Cornell University United States 18.3
18 University of Pennsylvania United States 17.9
19 Johns Hopkins University United States 16.9
20 University College London (UCL) United Kingdom 15.8
20 ETH Zürich – Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich Switzerland 15.8
22 National University of Singapore (NUS) Singapore 15.5
23 Kyoto University Japan 15.0
24 University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign United States 14.3
25 London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) United Kingdom 12.1
26 Carnegie Mellon University United States 11.3
27 University of Texas at Austin United States 11.2
27 University of Washington United States 11.2
29 New York University (NYU) United States 10.8
30 University of Wisconsin-Madison United States 10.7
31 University of British Columbia Canada 10.2
31 Duke University United States 10.2
31 McGill University Canada 10.2
34 University of California, San Diego United States 9.7
35 Tsinghua University China 9.6
36 The University of Hong Kong Hong Kong 9.5
37 Northwestern University United States 9.4
38 Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) United States 9.2
39 University of Melbourne Australia 8.9
40 University of California, San Francisco United States 8.7
41 Seoul National University Republic of Korea 8.3
42 Australian National University Australia 8.2
42 University of Massachusetts United States 8.2
44 Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München Germany 8.0
45 Peking University China 7.8
46 University of Edinburgh United Kingdom 7.7
47 University of Manchester United Kingdom 7.3
48 University of California, Davis United States 6.9
49 University of Sydney Australia 6.7
50 Lomonosov Moscow State University Russian Federation 6.5
50 Purdue University United States作者: 高飞 时间: 2014-2-28 22:16:48