June 30, 2023

After court decision, personal stories of affirmative action emerge (Washington Post)

“I did not have perfect SAT scores and I knew that, even then, these small elite campuses could fill their entire class with just valedictorians, with just people with perfect test scores,” said Vincent Pan, co-executive director of Chinese for Affirmative Action, who attended Harvard in 1996. Affirmative action probably played a role in his admission, Pan, 50, said, “but I understood that there was more to not only my application — there was more to me.”
June 30, 2023

Listen: ‘Meritocracy has always been a myth’: The impact of affirmative action on Asian Americans (SF Chronicle)

When the Supreme Court rejected affirmative action in college admissions, it argued that the practice puts Asian Americans at a disadvantage. But, as Vincent Pan from Chinese for Affirmative Action explains, that narrative masks how Asian Americans communities have faced exclusion from educational opportunities and played pivotal roles in calling for greater access.