<p>AA is that context was referring to affirmative action, not Asian-Americans.</p>
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<p>Sure, but that doesn’t explain why Asians are significantly OVER-represented in the UCs. If sheer numbers were the answer, Hispanics should outnumber Asians by far in the UCs. But instead they are behind. So there must be something more than simple numbers at work here.</p>
<p>It’s really quite simple, while 4% of the US population, Asian’s are disproportionately represented at all top colleges. The UC’s most of all because CA does have a large Asian population and can not consider race in admissions.</p>
<p>This has everything to do with cultural work ethic and focus on education. While many bash the Asians, I wonder what the rest of us are doing wrong.</p>
<p>Representin’~</p>
<p>I also believe that the parents of Asian Americans want their child to go to the top tier UC’s. I have read it time after time on these posts about Asian parents expecting their child to go to UCLA, UCB or UCSD and are very upset if the child doesn’t get in. It is almost expected from what I hear from my Asian friends.</p>
<p>^ I thought Asians parents dream of getting their kids into the Ivies instead? =p</p>
<p>I’ll tell you why . . . . because the UCs schools are a very good value, especially UCB and UCLA. Both schools are ranked high and both are relatively inexpensive. Asians parents (like mine) want their children to receive a good education and, if possible, to do so at a lower cost than that offered by the Ivies. My family is very typical. Because we live in California, the value of our home makes it impossible for us to receive FA from most schools, including the Ivies, but we certainly are not wealthy. When faced with the choice of spending $60,000 a year to get an Ivy education or $10,000 a year to get an education from UCB or UCLA, the choice is obvious to parents like mine. In addition, the UC is supposed to not consider race when admitting students, which allows high-scoring applicants (like most Asians) to have a much better chance at acceptance than the low-scoring applicants that are allowed in other top schools that embrace affirmative action. </p>
<p>When you couple the bargain offered by the UC system and the fact that Asians typically do better on standardized tests and in high school, you get a very high representation of Asians at the top UC schools. It’s no more complicated than that.</p>
<p>Yeah I always question ( about a year ago) why do the Asian population dominate the UC’s. I mean I was really surprise when looking at the student body. One student at my school I know of was thinking about attending a school in Asia. Though once she was introduced into the UC’s, now they have her interest. Ofcourse it will be out of state tuition, but not out of the country. I guess it’s more clear that California has a large Asian population, though i also thought their Hispanic population alone was larger, and their small dominance in the UC’s student body was a little surprising. Though would this lead to the stereotype I hear all the time that Asians are smarter ( though most Asians I know are well in school or smart).</p>
<p>Hispanics are a much larger percentage of the state of California than are Asians. </p>
<p>And at my school, many of the Asians aspire to go to UC Berkeley. They score pretty low on the SATs/ACTs, but they get top grades. So they get in, in large groups at that.</p>
<p>^ Really? I thought Berkeley cared just as much about test scores as about grades–both are usually lumped together in a “stats-based” approach.</p>
<p>I think it may have to do with how Obstinate defines really low for the test scores. Does he/she mean 550 or 710? You know how some kids on this site have a skewed sense of terrible scores…</p>
<p>Lol just wondering, how much does ethnicity count at HYPMS, CIT , WUSTL, JHU etc?
I’m asian btw. but w/ a strange last name that’s usually mistaken to be hispanic. :)</p>
<p>it counts a lot. unfortunately, you’re only asian.
if you were hispanic, you’d be GOLDEN!
are you 100% sure you don’t have any hispanic blood?</p>
<p>These schools do not all have the same policies. Therefore, nobody can actually give a blanket answer for all of them.</p>
<p>Fifty percent.</p>
<p>Christian South Asian?</p>
<p>You don’t have to list your race/ethnicity on the Common App.</p>
<p>Lolz i was just wondering
i’m from taiwan :)</p>
<p>hmm, on what basis would you say being hispanic is a golden ticket of sorts?</p>
<p>It counts for a lot. Look at decision threads and you’ll see plenty of african americans getting into Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Stanford, etc. with ~1900 SAT scores and 3.4 GPAs. It’s ridiculous how much admissions officers consider race.</p>
<p>To give you an idea</p>
<p>Native American = +15
Black = +10
Hispanic = +5
White = +0
Asian = -1000</p>