<p>The percentage of Asian students on campus from your point of view will depend on (1) who your friends are, (2) what you’re involved in, and (3) what you study. I think it all to some extent depends on your personal willingness and your friends’ personal willingness to make Asian or non-Asian friends. Suppose you are statistically more inclined to befriend an Asian student than a non-Asian student (because of things you have in common, comfort level, etc.), and suppose those friends were also more likely to befriend Asian students than non-Asian students. Then, the new people you meet through your friends are more likely to be Asian, and you are more likely to “see” that Princeton is a quarter or more Asian, because you’re not running into everyone else as much. Whereas, if you are statistically just as likely to befriend an Asian student as a non-Asian student, and your friends are also distributed in such a way, then yes, you will see that about 1 in 7 students is Asian.</p>
<p>Which, really, is still a lot of Asian students. In the rest of the country, the population is not 1 in 7 Asian. </p>
<p>Also, I will reinforce that Asian students are not outcast or relegated anywhere. Amnesia is right about Colonial currently being the club that the Asian dance groups and cultural groups tend to join, but every club has some non-random core student groups that they can count on to join from year to year (this is a very good thing for the clubs). </p>
<p>The other thing is, of course there are some people who feel that they are relegated to some club or other, and they don’t REALLY want to be there. This does not only apply to Asian students whose friends are all in Colonial and they don’t want to be there – I know a kid whose indie-loving friends are all in Terrace but doesn’t REALLY want to be there, but is there because his friends are, and rowers/swimmers who don’t REALLY want to be in Cloister that badly, but feel somewhat “relegated” there, and religious kids who want to join a club, but feel pressured by their friends not to. And all of those people finally decided that they were going to do what they want to do, and they’re much happier for it.</p>