Since the immigration of Whites to the U.S. has been unrestricted ever since the Mayflower, and large scale immigration of Jews dates back to the 19th century, these groups have had more than 200 and 100 years’ headstart, respectively, to establish themselves economically.</p>
<p>The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 made it just a wee bit hard for Asian men to procreate and build economic dynasties when they were barred from citizenship, and Chinese women were barred from immigrating to the U.S. It wasn’t until the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, that the quota was lifted, which had previously limited Chinese immigrants to the U.S. to 105 persons per year. That was less than 50 years ago, an aggressive time frame to start a family; earn enough dough to send the first generation to prep school; then have that class graduate, get rich and build a trust fund to endow a school.</p>
<p>^^ All true, but – tough nooggies – the colleges don’t want to wait 100 years for the Asian to get wealthier and start to donate like Whites and Jews.</p>
This info is dated. Looking at the published class profiles for Class 16 at HP, Asian American in H is 21% and in P is 21.9%. It’s 18.4% at Yale College by 13-14 but I couldn’t find that stat for class '16 only.</p>
<p>I think the “standard practice” for race reporting by colleges is through self identification. The fact sheet of Harvard from which this stat is from doesn’t list mixed race as a category. The Princeton and Yale reports do. Yale also has an “unknown” category which may explain why it’s Asian American rate is lower.</p>
<p>Just because more Asians show up on the boards with Chance Me threads does not mean Jews are less committed to education. They’re there, they just don’t need random people to tell them their chances.</p>