RUTH: Look, Connie’s a really smart Asian girl, but I’ve got a boatload of them — pardon the expression. She’s not black, she’s not hispanic, or even white. I mean, good Lord, give me a white kid from a public school with Connie’s specs, and that kid could waltz in here.
KAHN: You telling me Connie didn’t get in because she’s an overachieving Asian? That’s discrimination!
RUTH: In a way, it’s flattering, isn’t it? Look, maybe there’s something you left off Connie’s application, some kind of hook. Has she ever had to play that violin of hers on the street to buy her strung-out mother just one more hit?
KAHN: No.
RUTH: Well, that would have helped.

I had similar feelings on Syriana. I thought this review nailed it: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/12/AR2005121201251.html