Last month, I came across an article titled "Do colleges redline Asian-Americans?" and I still haven't been able to get it out of my mind. Do colleges really set a higher standard for Asian Americans? If this is true, as the article implies, the same must hold true for places of employment, no? When I applied for colleges, or whenever I applied for jobs, I always happily volunteered my ethnicity on application forms. After all, my last name is nothing but Asian. But at the same time, I knew that being Asian gave me a slight disadvantage. (Going slightly off tangent, I have always envied my Filipino-American friends for their Hispanic-sounding surnames. You can't deny that they are more likely to be offered...