Asians at top colleges

Tyler09
Mon, 05 Nov 2007 18:30:04 +0000

I was just looking at the percent of asians at top colleges and i just realized something.

At a school like Harvard, there are 15% Asians, and people riot that asians have a low admit rate.

But 15% of students did not report their race. The only reason i would think they would do that is because they are asian and believe it hurts them in admissions.

If that is true, then wouldnt that mean that Harvard is made up of nearly 30% Asians? And all studies done on the discrimination against asians in admissions are terribly exaggerated because Asians are more likely to leave their race unreported then any other group?

I was just thinking how such bias could skew the data. (I’m taking AP Stats, sorry! lol)

I just want to know if i’m totally off with my hypothesis.