'''Jian Li''' (, lahir RRT, 1988) adalah seorang mahasiswa Tionghoa-Amerika di Yale University. Pada bulan November 2006, ia mengajukan sebuah tuntutan civil rights kepada Office for Civil Rights terhadap Princeton University, dengan tuduhan bahwa ras memegang peranan dalam keputusan mereka untuk menolaknya sebagai mahasiswa baru.

== Latar belakang akademis ==
Li, yang memegang kewarganegaraan RRT, adalah seorang permanent resident AS. Ia imigrasi bersama keluarganya dalam usia 4 tahun. Ia melamar ke 9 universitas, 5 di antaranya (Princeton, Harvard University, Stanford University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, dan University of Pennsylvania) menolak dan 4 (Yale, California Institute of Technology, Rutgers University, dan Cooper Union) menerima. Ia lulus dari sebuah SMU negeri di Livingston, New Jersey dalam top 1% di kelasnya, dengan nilai SAT sempurna 2400 dan nilai SAT Subject Tests dalam kalkulus, fisika, dan kimia hampir sempurna.<ref>WSJ 2006-11-11</ref> Li memutuskan untuk mengajukan tuntutan terhadap Princeton setelah membaca sebuah hasil penelitian Princeton tahun 2004<ref>Boston Globe 2006-11-26</ref> bahwa mengabaikan ras dalam penerimaan mahasiswa baru akan menyebabkan 80% tempat yang sekarang diberikan kepada mahasiswa black dan Latino dialihkan ke mahasiswa Asian American.<ref>Espenshade and Chung, 2005</ref>

== Reaksi ==
Kasus Li diberitakan secara luas di media massa pada akhir 2006, termasuk di Wall Street Journal, People's Daily<ref>People's Daily 2006-11-16</ref>, dan Townhall.com<ref>Townhall.com 2006-12-14</ref>. Li juga mengatakan mahasiswa dari Brown University telah menghubunginya untuk memulai gerakan kampus nasional melawan diskriminasi terhadap Asian American.<ref>NYT 2007-01-23</ref> Walaupun demikian, ada beberapa penulis majalah kampus yang mengritiknya. Misalnya teman sekampus Li di Yale, Jonathan Pitts-Wiley, menulis sebuah artikel di Yale Daily News yang menuduhnya "unnecessarily racializ[ing] a personal defeat".<ref>Boston Globe 2006-11-26</ref> Kemudian, pada 17 Januari 2007, ''Daily Princetonian'' menerbitkan sebuah artikel lelucon dalam Chinglish yang ditulis oleh "Lian Ji":
: "''I so good at math and science ... I the super smart Asian. Princeton the super dumb college, not accept me ... My dad from Kung Pao province. I united 500 years of Rice Wars ... I love Yale. Lots of bulldogs here for me to eat.''"<ref>DP 2007-01-17</ref>

'''Jian Li''' (, born 1988 in the Chinese citizenship, is a US permanent resident, having immigrated with his family to the Office for Civil Rights against Princeton University, claiming that his race played a role in their decision to reject his application for admission, and seeking the suspension of federal financial assistance to the university until it "discontinues discrimination against Asian Americans in all forms" by eliminating race and legacy preferences.<ref name="Golden"></ref>

==Academic background==
Li graduated from a math level 2, physics, and chemistry.<ref name="Golden"/><ref name="Stern"></ref>

==Filing of complaint==
Li came to the decision to file a civil rights complaint against Princeton after reading studies by Princeton researchers which claimed that ending affirmative action in university admissions would lead to 80% of placements currently offered to black and Latino students instead being given to Asian Americans.<ref name="Golden"/><ref name="Shea"></ref><ref></ref><ref></ref><ref></ref>

Li filed the complaint to "send a message to the admissions committee to be more cognizant of possible bias, and that the way they're conducting admissions is not equitable."<ref name="Elder"></ref> Though Li is not seeking any personal compensation, his complaint calls for the suspension of federal financial assistance to Princeton until it "discontinues discrimination against Asian-Americans in all forms" by eliminating race and legacy preferences.<ref name="Golden"/><ref>
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