<p>It may be hard for California students to fully appreciate the state university system. After all, what is close and familiar is often taken for granted and the schools often garner more attention for conflict about who can attend then they do about their excellence. There may be one or two public universities with higher ranking but no system places as many at the very top of any rating scale as does California.</p>
<p>Is the point of this thread to make Cal students grateful for being at Cal? Because believe me, we are. </p>
<p>We Asians are particularly grateful because we know that things could have been much worse, and that elitist privates school like HYP which set admission quotas on Asian applicants aren’t worth attending.</p>
<p>But not the rich white kids though. Flapping their money around like devil wings on rhesus monkeys, they don’t have the slightest appreciation for the greatness of this grand institution - an institution where the secrets of the atomic bomb were discovered, an institution where Martin Luther King once stood, an institution where pretty Asian girls flourish.</p>
<p>They aren’t grateful at all, and wish that they were at HYP instead. Spoiled brats. Darn the 1%!</p>
<p>I echo Taeyang’s sentiments. Asians should support UC Berkeley in particular because it is the top school in the world that does not discriminate against them. </p>
<p>Everyone who believes that Berkeley has too many Asians should know that other minorities are usually able to get into higher-ranked schools thus lowering the percentage of Asians at Berkeley. Indeed, the reason that there are few under-represented minorities at Cal isn’t because Cal discriminates against them. It’s because other schools are effectively opposed to having what they believe are too many Asians. Looking at the primary admission thread on CC, you will see that certain URMs have about the same chance of getting into Cal as Stanford. </p>
<p>This is coming from a person who supports AA to some degree, just like the former Asian chancellor of Berkeley. But it doesn’t mean I shouldn’t also support non-AA schools.</p>