<p>This study does not mention anything about ethnicity. However, i am very curious to know the ethnic demographics of the students included in the study. If we knew the ethnic demographics of those who fit the profle for the study, we could know just how much economic status is actually a hinderance to education.</p>
<p>“If we knew the ethnic demographics of those who fit the profle for the study, we could know just how much economic status is actually a hinderance to education.”</p>
<p>You don’t make any sense. Go read a book.</p>
<p>There is already a thread about this article. You should take all further discussion there.</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=1429369[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=1429369</a></p>
<p>starktony826, there are some people who claim that economic status of a family can affect education. What I mean to say is how economic status affects education across a range of ethnicities. Statistically, Asians perform higher than other ethnicities. I am curious to know how well this holds up among lower income, higher achieving students. If this holds true even in lower income families, then we cmay assume that a main cause of disparities in education is not so much a economic status but also of parenting styles and culture. </p>
<p>With affirmative action, we assume that people of lower economic standing have access to less educational resources and this is mostly true. But what we don’t consider is parenting style and culture can be a large factor in education performance. And if this is more a factor than we think (Which we can learn more about by knowing the demographics of the low income, high achieving students in teh study).</p>
<p>“Asian American” is a term used by colleges to apply to a really large and diverse group of students. There are significant differences in academic achievement and economic status among ethnic groups within that “Asian American” classification.</p>
<p>[Socioeconomic</a> Statistics & Demographics : Asian-Nation :: Asian American History, Demographics, & Issues](<a href=“http://www.asian-nation.org/demographics.shtml]Socioeconomic”>Socioeconomic Statistics & Demographics : Asian-Nation :: Asian American History, Demographics, & Issues)</p>
<p>For example, African-Americans attend college in greater numbers than the Hmong and Indians more than European-whites.</p>
<p>Thank you for the link OHMomof2. But I would like to see the number of that study as well to get a more detailed picture of only lower income, high acheiving students. </p>
<p>To clarify, when I mentioned Asian in previous posts, I should of said East Asian.</p>
<p>I don’t think colleges make that distinction.</p>
<p>I’m low income and high achieving. White.</p>
<p>^^^^Same. Im from LI too. Except Im probably not what most people would call “Low income”. But this is long island. COL here is like double the average.
I actually found out that some colleges examine the COL in an applicant’s town to determine financial need. Yay!</p>
<p>BigE96, I never said that there weren’t low income, high achieving whites (Which I suspect to be a fairly dominant group in the study I mentioned above.) I know there are low income, high achieivng students from every race but I want but as I said, I’m curious to know if the ethnic demographics of the students in the study reflects national ethnic demographics in terms of academic performance.</p>
<p>[NAEP</a> 2009 High School Transcript Study: Race/Ethnicity, Grade Point Average](<a href=“NAEP 2009 High School Transcript Study: Race/Ethnicity, Grade Point Average”>NAEP 2009 High School Transcript Study: Race/Ethnicity, Grade Point Average)
For example, Asians have the highest average GPA followed by whites, then Hispanics, then blacks. i am curious as to how this data relates to the students in teh study.</p>
<p>One curious thing about the nationsreportcard.gov link I posted and OhMomof2’s link. In 2000, 0.8% of blacks and 0.7% of whites were not proficient in English whereas 31.3% of Chinese were not proficient in English. Yet, the English GPA for Asians was highest which is ironic. Now, the two links do not give detail on performance of various ethnicites in narrower income ranges such as ($0-$40k).</p>
<p>Actually, Asian immigrants’ English is not as good as Asian-American (born here) English. Of course.</p>
<p>And there is substantial deviation within groups under the “Asian American” umbrella. Asians as a group have higher GPA, college degrees etc over other groups, but if you breakdown “Asian” you find those from India are highest in those cats while Hmong come in lower than African American, Hispanic, everyone.</p>
<p>This is an interesting response to a PEW study on Asians as “model minority”: [Asian</a> Americans to Pew Study: We?re Not Your ?Model Minority?|The Hartford Guardian](<a href=“http://www.thehartfordguardian.com/2012/06/22/asian-americans-to-pew-study-were-not-your-model-minority/]Asian”>http://www.thehartfordguardian.com/2012/06/22/asian-americans-to-pew-study-were-not-your-model-minority/)</p>