<p>JBVirtuoso got it right</p>
<p>"Actually, a majority of all college students attend community and city colleges. So it only makes sense that a majority of Asians would do the same."</p>
<p>At many local city and state universities (the SUNYs and CUNYs in particular), students without green cards are only counted as international students as far as financial aid (not admissions if they attend high school in city/in-state) as they are not eligible for federal funds. However, if they graduate from a NYC high school or if they are a NYS state resident before applying (having attended h.s. in the state) they are not charged out of state (out of city for CUNY) fees. They pay the same as local students.</p>
<p>i know whitman college is definitely in need of more multi-cultural people, including asians. Some LACs have good asian enrollment (i.e. pomona college, claremont mckenna etc.) and others (in more rural areas) have extremely low percentages of asians.</p>
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Some LACs have good asian enrollment (i.e. pomona college, claremont mckenna etc.)
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According to collegeboard.com, Pomona has 14% Asian enrollment, Claremont McKenna has 13%, and Harvey Mudd has 18%. Those are pretty good numbers by LAC standards. They are ahead of Whitman, at 11%.</p>
<p>But even the top California LACs perform terribly compared to California universities. For example, Berkeley has 46%, UCLA has 45%, Caltech has 44%, Stanford has 24%, and USC has 22%. Even second-tier LA-area state schools, like Irvine (56%), Riverside (40%), or Cal Poly Pomona (28%), blow away the Claremont Colleges in terms of Asian enrollment.</p>
<p>close to majority of entering class at Stanford and Harvard is composed of minorities and international students, principally Asians</p>