As Asian Americans, most of our parents have drilled into our heads the fundamental reasons why we should attend college. However, what they probably haven’t mentioned and what we don’t normally think of is the societal impact of obtaining a college education. As recent CBS News article explains, getting a college degree actually helps boost the economy.
The percentage of students who do not attend college is larger than you may think, as high school dropout rates are reaching nearly 50 percent in the country’s 50 largest school …

Name: Clara Chung
Age: 22
College: University of California-Irvine (UCI)
Clara Chung is a bubbly, down-to-earth Korean American college student that comes across as a girl anyone could easily strike up a conversation with. A soon-to-be graduate of UCI come mid-June, with a major in psychology and minor in education, Clara has also had a passion for music from an early age.
“There was a video of me when I was five doing karaoke, and I was trying to steal the microphone from my mom,” she says. “So music was kind of innate …

Now that it’s summer, college application season is officially over. People are attending summer orientations, signing up for dorms and getting excited for high school graduation. So what happened to those applications? They can’t affect anything anymore, right?
Wrong. Adam Wheeler was recently charged with 20 counts, from identity fraud to larceny for lying on his application to Harvard and various scholarships. Wheeler claimed he’d gotten perfect SAT scores (really scoring 1220), received straight As at MIT (he never went) and attended Phillips Academy (he went to high school in Delaware). …

We recently blogged about left tackle Edward Wang from Virginia Tech who sought, at the time, to be the first Chinese American football player ever to get picked during the NFL Draft. Today, we have even better news. Wang’s hard work has paid off, and on Saturday, he was drafted to join the Buffalo Bills team as an offensive tackle.
As the 140th overall pick, Wang was finally drafted in the fifth round, though this event is nothing short of historic. The somewhat-affectionately nicknamed “Godzilla” is the …

Edward Wang is nicknamed “Godzilla” by his teammates—and he lives up to the name. At 6’5” tall and 314 pounds, Wang seeks to be the first Chinese American football player ever to get drafted in the National Football League (NFL) Draft.
Wang, who was the left tackle at Virginia Tech, has never been a stranger to sports. His athletic family encouraged him to participate in sports that are often void of Asians in the U.S., such as football and basketball. According to an article by Northwest Asian Weekly, Wang’s parents used …