<p>I can’t speak for H or P, but the year my Dd was a freshman at Yale, she gave informal tours to the only three kids from her HS (very small private) who were accepted the year after she was. All three were Asian boys- two Chinese Americans, one, Japanese American. One of the boys went to Stanford, the others matriculated at Yale. My daughter went to senior prom with a Korean American, who went to Princeton.</p>
<p>The year my son graduated HS, one of two accepted at Yale was Vietnamese. </p>
<p>At some of the selective east coast LACs, there may actually be a kind of preference for Asian kids because they don’t get as many applicants as the ivies, or at least don’t get the stars as often.
During my daughter’s application process, I remember that Amherst, Dartmouth and Middlebury regularly scooped up our HS’s Asian kids, but they didn’t always get them. Their parents often preferred their kids go to Berkeley or UCLA if they didn’t get into HYPSM.</p>
<p>I realize that anecdotes don’t mean much. It will be interesting to see what develops with the case against H and P. Maybe it will make admissions a little more transparent, which wouldn’t be a bad thing, imo.</p>