<p>what are some top50(usnews) schools that need some asians...??
actually where being asian becomes advantage...is there any??</p>
<p>this kind of reminds me of world of warcraft...excuse my nerdy inclinations...</p>
<p>"full on asians! need more african and native americans!"</p>
<p>Notre Dame!</p>
<p>BYU......lol</p>
<p>Wake Forest is only 6% Asian.</p>
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<p>'Cept BYU isn't a top-50 school.</p>
<p>oops...........lol</p>
<p>BYU doesn't lack Asians. According to their website, 12.1% of the students are minorities and 33% of those are Asians for an overall Asian percentage of 4%. Which is almost exactly the same as the overall US population, which according to the Census Bureau is 4.1% Asian.</p>
<p>lol you'll only see a minority of asians at crappy colleges b/c we're so win :-P</p>
<p>Actually, the number of Asians is noticeably low at Vanderbilt Univ. VU is not a "crappy college" by any means--it is an excellent university--but its location in the south seems to be a deterrent for many students who would be doing themselves a big favor if they looked into it. The school is interested in diversifying its student body, and they have as generous a merit plan as any school at its level. It is also a "need blind", 100% of need school.</p>
<p>And Nashville is no relic of the old south, either.</p>
<p>Many smaller liberal arts colleges tend to have less asians than the big research universities.</p>
<p>Probably cuz those West Coast Asian parents will only be proud of their children if they get into a school they've heard of..</p>
<p>connecticut college, trinity, colby, bates, hamilton</p>
<p>Southern top-50 and LACs, some already mentioned, where being Asian would add to the diversity of the school:</p>
<p>U of Richmond
Wake Forest
Washington & Lee
Davidson</p>
<p>Supposedly there's a running joke in admissions departments that Asians won't apply to any school -- no matter how good it is -- if it has the word "College" in its name, rather than "University". Don't know how true this is, but there is a perception that even the highest-ranked liberal arts colleges often struggle to attract Asian students. </p>
<p>There is one exception to this "rule", though: women's colleges often have high Asian enrollment.</p>
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<p>A majority of Asian-Americans attend community college or city colleges.</p>
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<p>Otoh, a few years ago, USC, which had a Jewish student pop. of 4%<a href="which%20is%20%5Bb%5Dmore%20than%202x%5B/b%5D%20the%20%%20of%20college-age%20Jews%20in%20the%20US%20pop.">/b</a> hired a recruiter in order to raise the % of Jews in the student body (even tho, Jews were already overrepresented) Jews now make up **8% of USCs student body.</p>
<p>When schools like Vanderbilt target Jews, it means that they try to get them to apply, not that they give their admissions a boost (Jews and Asians have plenty high enough scores already). They do this by encouraging Jewish organizations, creating Jewish Studies programs and trying to raise awareness.</p>
<p>For sure, most of the LACs. I visited Williams, Amherst, and Bowdoin, and all three were lacking in minorities in general. Amherst and Bowdoin still seemed alot more diverse than Williams (esp. Asians and blacks), which gives you an indication of how poor Williams is in that department.</p>
<p>When we visited Bucknell, Lehigh, Lafayette and Villanova last April they all seemed lily-white compared to the California schools.</p>
<p>Back to the BYU thing, I heard BYU's campus in Hawaii has plenty of Asians...which would be expected. Sorry for the unrelated tidbit.</p>
<p>I'll second dudedad....some, but not all, of the southern schools are lacking in Asians.</p>
<p>Here are some stats calculated from these southern school's latest available Common Data Set (section B2), or factbook if no CDS is available.</p>
<p>SCHOOL %ASIAN+PACIFIC ISLANDERS (of all undergrads)</p>
<p>Davidson 2.8%
<a href="http://www3.davidson.edu/cms/x5073.xml%5B/url%5D">http://www3.davidson.edu/cms/x5073.xml</a></p>
<p>Duke 25.4% (class of 2010 only)
<a href="http://www.admissions.duke.edu/jump/applying/who_2010profile.asp%5B/url%5D">http://www.admissions.duke.edu/jump/applying/who_2010profile.asp</a></p>
<p>Emory 17.3%
<a href="http://www.emory.edu/PROVOST/IPR/CDS2006_2007.pdf%5B/url%5D">http://www.emory.edu/PROVOST/IPR/CDS2006_2007.pdf</a></p>
<p>Richmond 3.6%
<a href="http://oir.richmond.edu/CommonDataSets/CDS2006_2007_FINAL.pdf%5B/url%5D">http://oir.richmond.edu/CommonDataSets/CDS2006_2007_FINAL.pdf</a></p>
<p>Vanderbilt 6.2%
<a href="https://virg.vanderbilt.edu/virgweb/vucds.aspx%5B/url%5D">https://virg.vanderbilt.edu/virgweb/vucds.aspx</a></p>
<p>Wake Forest 5.1%
<a href="http://www.wfu.edu/ir/factbook-2006-2007/pdf/p17.pdf%5B/url%5D">http://www.wfu.edu/ir/factbook-2006-2007/pdf/p17.pdf</a></p>
<p>Washington & Lee 3.4%
<a href="http://ir.wlu.edu/cds/cds.htm#secc%5B/url%5D">http://ir.wlu.edu/cds/cds.htm#secc</a></p>