| "being Asian is a positive characteristic at some other top-ranked schools, for instance, Vanderbilt University."
Yes, and a fine school that is. Other fine schools, such as JHU, CMU, U of Chicago, Case Western Reserve -- so many others -- get passed over due to non-Ivy "name" by many Asian families, as there is sometimes the "do or die" attachment to college = permanent future. No it does not equate to that, at least not here in the States.
And I wanted to correct the comment above about the "higher" bar. Not higher bar, just equal bar. From a group of equally qualified students (remembering that qualification does not equal a number, or several numbers), a private college is not going to admit a 50% Asian class. Not going to happen. They're going to include other qualified students in the class.
And yes, this is the reason for some of the U.C. campuses being near 50% Asian in freshman composition. |