LOS ANGELES — Cecilia Chang bluntly told her two kids: You have to try harder because of who you are.
She believed that admission to elite colleges was stacked against Asian Americans — “You’re competing for a very little number of seats with all these qualified Asian kids,” she said.
Still, she doesn’t think the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling doing away with affirmation action will change much. She supports college officials trying to bring in students from “all walks of life,” and she thinks they will find a way to achieve the racial diversity they’re looking for.
