For Asian-Americans, a changing landscape on college admissions

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@mikanpater

Compare University of California San Diego and University of San Diego. These schools are broadly similar, although UCSD is bigger, except that UCSD is not allowed to discriminate by race, while USD is. Result: UCSD is 45.1% Asian, while USD is 6.3%.

I guess the Chinese Exclusion Act is still applied at USD.

Of course, the self-selection of the applicant pools is likely the biggest reason for the difference.

Note that San Diego State University is only 7.4% Asian.