<p>Asians are overrepresented in the Ivies and other high standing academic institutions across the country, but at other schools especially in the south and midwest their numbers are scanty.</p>
<p>Vicks,</p>
<p>You are absolutely right. The whole sad thing about this thread (and others like it) concerning Asian Americans/ AA is only about admissions into approximately 20 colleges in this country (Ivies, Caltech, MIT, Stanford, JHU and the Elite LACs) . When you consider that there are over 3000 schools in this country most which would welcome Asians and URMs if thought to apply. </p>
<p>However, we can have these threads until the end of time but colleges are still looking to build a community and it takes all kinds of people to make that happen.</p>
<p>For example: Amherst which requires supplemental essays has a question which I thinks sums up the issue. (However, based on some of the skewed responses to this thread, some people would have no idea of how to answer the question)</p>
<p>For me, diversity is not a political slogan or a theoretical goal; it is an absolute necessity. It is impossible for students from any particular background to engage fully the racial and ethnic dimensions of American culture in a setting that does not approximate the racial composition of the society as a whole.</p>
<p>From an essay published February 26, 2003, in the Chicago Sun-Times by Frederick E. Hoxie, Amherst Class of 1969,
Amherst trustee, Swalund Professor of History, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign</p>