<p>From the statistics on Collegeboard, i found that 41% of students at UCLA are asian, and only 33% are white. I am an asian myself, but I find this number unusually high.</p>
<p>In all seriousness and with no disrespect, is UCLA completely covered with asians? Does it seem like the majority of students at UCLA are asian?</p>
<p>And do all the races intermingle pretty well or is it clique'ish</p>
<p>pretty much...you see asians everywhere.</p>
<p>theres both cliques and intermingling.</p>
<p>Well definitely there are asian cliques and intermingling. 41 percent seems right. Asians are definitely everwhere, however, if you look at UCLA, you will see a lot of different ethnicities. For example, when I go to Powell, I see a lot of latinos, a lot of asians, a lot of caucasians, and some African-Americans. Depending on where you are at UCLA, you can decide for yourself if it seems like the majority of UCLA is asian. (I am asian btw).
Another note about asians. There are bad asians, the ones that study 24/7, the ones who are calm and relaxed, the ones who don't care, and ones who are just normal people. So don't go to UCLA expecting to see the stereotypical asian who studies all day and doesn't go out.</p>
<p>people actually study at UCLA?! gasp! :eek:</p>
<p>that's not what I had in mind when I turned in my SIR! Oh, the horror!</p>
<p>study? whats that? is that what this course reader is for? :confused:</p>
<p>whats wrong with ucla student studying???</p>
<p>study first...party second....at least thats what i would do in college since my family doesnt have money to waste...</p>
<p>...but procrastination is oh so much more fun. :o</p>
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<p>^^ thanks for editing. now my post makes no sense. :mad:</p>
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<p>Actually, UCLA students have a reputation for not studying. Or so my profs always told me.</p>
<p>yea UCs (except UCSB) are asian....I don't see what the problem is though...</p>
<p>oh ok............i didnt know that</p>
<p>I think whites are still a plurality at most of the UCs (if not all of them). </p>
<p>It's the Jews you have to watch out for, though. They set the curve, and then still have time to party.</p>
<p>::Wink wink::</p>
<p>UC accepts unprecedented number of Asian students</p>
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<p>By Foram Doshi
DAILY BRUIN CONTRIBUTOR
<a href="mailto:fdoshi@media.ucla.edu">fdoshi@media.ucla.edu</a></p>
<p>Spurred in large part by continued Asian immigration into the state, the number of Asian American students at the University of California continues to rise, far exceeding the average percentage of Asian American students at universities nationwide. </p>
<p>Asian Americans accounted for slightly more of the admitted class than whites, for the first time this year, at 36 percent of admitted California residents for fall 2006. White students were the only ethnic group that decreased in the percentage admitted from last year. </p>
<p>UCLA admitted 5,369 Asian American students this year, an increase from 4,710 last year; 3,744 white students were admitted for the fall 2006 class. </p>
<p>Asian Americans include Chinese, East Indian/Pakistani, Pilipino, Japanese, Korean, Pacific Islander, and other Asians. </p>
<p>"I think it's a continuation of a trend that we have seen for over two decades ... (as) Asian Americans have represented the largest group of applicants to many of the UC campuses for many years, like UCLA, Berkeley, and Irvine," said Don Nakanishi, director of the Asian American studies department. </p>
<p>Though Asian American students make up the largest group of students admitted to the UC and enrolled at UCLA, data compiled by the National Center for Education Statistics shows that this is not the case across the entire nation. </p>
<p>In 2002, only 6.5 percent of enrolled students in degree-granting institutions in the United States were Asian Americans. The largest group was whites, who accounted for 67.1 percent of enrolled students. </p>
<p>Mitchell Chang, associate professor of higher education and organizational change at UCLA, said he believes the increases in enrollment may be a result of immigration trends in recent years and financial constraints on Asian American families, which make public institutions preferable to private schools because of lower fees. </p>
<p>"We have to look for explanations that are certainly beyond biological factors and beyond cultural factors. I think we should rather be looking at (issues) such as immigration and financial capabilities," he said. </p>
<p>Chang said a contributing factor might be that Asian American families often do not have the financial resources to let children attend private universities such as Stanford, USC and the Claremont Colleges, or go to school out of state, though he said the issue should be researched further. </p>
<p>At Stanford University, the ethnic composition of the class of 2009 includes 22.6 percent Asian Americans and 42.4 percent whites. In the fall of 2005, 21.1 percent of enrolled students at USC were Asian Americans and 47.2 percent were white. </p>
<p>At Yale University in Connecticut, 13 percent of enrolled students are Asian American while 14 percent of undergraduates at New York University are Asian American. </p>
<p>C. Cindy Fan, professor and chairwoman for the Department of Asian American Studies and a professor of geography, said the increase of Asian Americans at the UCs may be a result of recent trends that show more immigrants from Asia settling on the West Coast. </p>
<p>"Looking at Southern California or just California in general over the more recent years, we've seen an increase in immigrants from mainland China and also Taiwan, which has been quite significant," she said. </p>
<p>"If you look at the distribution of the Asian population in the United States, it's very bicoastal and mainly in metropolitan areas," she said. </p>
<p>A total of 236,039 Asians immigrated to the United States in 2003, primarily from China, India and the Philippines, according to the Yearbook of Immigration Studies. The statistics were compiled by the Office of Immigration Statistics, which works through the Department of Homeland Security. </p>
<p>Fan said there may be a cultural component that contributes to the increasing number of Asian Americans at the UC. </p>
<p>"Emphasis on education has always been very strong among the Asians. Second- and third-generation children of Asian heritage also are very much motivated, or (have) been motivated by their parents to seek higher education," Fan said. </p>
<p>Ricardo Vazquez, a UC spokesman, said Asian Americans achieve UC eligibility at the highest rate of any ethnic group. </p>
<p>Proposition 209, which was passed into law in 1996, made it illegal for public institutions to discriminate on the basis of race, sex or ethnicity, and prohibited affirmative action programs. This may have helped shape trends as UCLA has been more reliant on using numerical information, such as GPA and test scores, Chang said.</p>
<p>Wait wait wait, hold on a second. You're telling me that UCLA and the UCs has a lot of Asians?!?!</p>
<p>:rolleyes:</p>
<p>DRab</p>
<p>yes i think they are the only schools that asians are majority...
and im surpirsed that you didnt know that...(or are you kidding us???)</p>
<p>The :rolleyes: inidcates kidding.</p>
<p>Majority? If by that you mean over half, isn't UCI the only UC that works? If you mean largest group, sure, they win at a few more (UCLA, Berkeley, UCR?). Anyone know?</p>
<p>Cal, UCLA, UCD, and UCI all have had an Asian plurality for a while now...</p>
<p>What do you think UCLA stands for...
University of Caucasians Lost in Asians</p>
<p>I thought it was "Under Construction Like Always?"</p>
<p>:p</p>