As reported by Renu Mukherjee at City Journal, “Inconvenient Discrimination: The American Psychological Association once acknowledged bias against Asian Americans in college admissions; today, it would rather not.”

In 2012, the American Psychological Association (APA) published an online essay about discrimination against Asian Americans in college admissions. Penned by a psychology graduate student named Yi-Chen (Jenny) Wu, the essay argued that such discrimination might make American teenagers of Asian origin hesitant to identify as such and thereby negatively affect their racial and ethnic identity development and mental health. At the time, the APA described the subject of Wu’s essay as a “relevant psychosocial and psychological health and well-being topic.”

A decade later, the organization no longer believes this.