<p>A recent NYtimes article might shed some light on what may soon be the common demographics for many universities across the country and provides a response to:</p>
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But if Princeton were to just accept whites and Asians how would that make a diverse student body? Diversity is important on in any institution of higher learning and in any workplace, so I do not think that there proportions would be considered illegal.
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<p><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/07/education/edlife/07asian.html?ex=1332475200&en=6570007ef4e33f29&ei=5124&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink%5B/url%5D">http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/07/education/edlife/07asian.html?ex=1332475200&en=6570007ef4e33f29&ei=5124&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink</a></p>
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"Spend a few days at Berkeley, on the classically manicured slope overlooking San Francisco Bay and the distant Pacific, and soon enough the sound of foreign languages becomes less distinct. This is a global campus in a global age. And more than any time in its history, it looks toward the setting sun for its identity.</p>
<p>The revolution at Berkeley is a quiet one, a slow turning of the forces of immigration and demographics. What is troubling to some is that the big public school on the hill certainly does not look like the ethnic face of California, which is 12 percent Asian, more than twice the national average. But it is the new face of the state’s vaunted public university system. Asians make up the largest single ethnic group, 37 percent, at its nine undergraduate campuses."
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The article goes further to show that Asian populations should be even higher at private universities (especially the Ivies).</p>
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"Asians have become the “new Jews,” in the phrase of Daniel Golden, whose recent book, “The Price of Admission: How America’s Ruling Class Buys Its Way Into Elite Colleges — and Who Gets Left Outside the Gates,” is a polemic against university admissions policies. Mr. Golden, a reporter for The Wall Street Journal, is referring to evidence that, in the first half of the 20th century, Ivy League schools limited the number of Jewish students despite their outstanding academic records to maintain the primacy of upper-class Protestants. Today, he writes, “Asian-Americans are the odd group out, lacking racial preferences enjoyed by other minorities and the advantages of wealth and lineage mostly accrued by upper-class whites. Asians are typecast in college admissions offices as quasi-robots programmed by their parents to ace math and science.”</p>
<p>As if to illustrate the point, a study released in October by the Center for Equal Opportunity, an advocacy group opposing race-conscious admissions, showed that in 2005 Asian-Americans were admitted to the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, at a much lower rate (54 percent) than black applicants (71 percent) and Hispanic applicants (79 percent) — despite median SAT scores that were 140 points higher than Hispanics and 240 points higher than blacks."
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<p>[Moderators: the quoted material, 357 words, is less than 10 percent of the article (article has 3799 words).]</p>
<p>We can see that minorities not only appreciate higher admittance rates at top colleges (see Harvard study), but that they also (generally) have lower SAT scores as well. Of course, SAT scores are only one measure of proficiency. However, we must realize that SAT scores have a larger role (as indicated by the Harvard study *1) in admissions than many seem to believe on CC, and that Asians, despite their exemplary achievement, are left locked out at the gate.</p>
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...an applicant with an admissions probability of 40 percent based on SAT scores...
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