Asians at W&M

soccerguy315
Sat, 29 Apr 2006 16:35:09 +0000

Most important, on topic to the OP:

bigflyerz, i’m confident if you come to W&M with an open attitude, looking to have an enjoyable experience, you will indeed, have a good time.

And to the subtopic in the thread:

whether you want to include VT/UCI/UCD etc doesn’t really matter, the math will still work out essentially the same. I included VT in my list because the post I was responding to included it. If there were more schools in the list, I would have included those too.

As I was writing my post, I was hoping that I was doing everything correctly. I thought I was, and I am happy that Ninian (statistician) confirmed it. I mean, the last time I took a math class was 2 years ago in high school. I also didn’t write that post in like 5 minutes, but it was definitely entertaining, possibly even more entertaining than the reading about Brazilian political culture, which is probably what I should have been doing. Heck, I had to borrow my roommate’s calculator (physics major) because I don’t have on at school.



Now how about add UC San Diego (#32 on UNWR, 7618 asian students/20048 total students) and UC Irvine (#40 on UNWR, 9473 asian students/19333 total students) into the equation? Those 2 are on par with W&M. And maybe we can even add UC Santa Babara (#45) and UC Davis (#48). See what problem you are getting into? Using my method we won’t get into the trouble.

I know you said you won’t come back, and that’s fine, but I’m going to take issue with this. I would put a group of W&M students against a group of students from any other public school in the country, and probably any private school, and they would hold their own just fine in any major subject with the exception of engineering (for obvious reasons). This statement makes it sound like there any kind of significant gap between UVA/UCB/UCLA and W&M.

I’m still trying to figure this out:
fuss·y P Pronunciation Key (fs)
adj. fuss·i·er, fuss·i·est
Easily upset; given to bouts of ill temper: a fussy baby.
Paying great or excessive attention to personal tastes and appearance; fastidious: He was always fussy about clothes.
Calling for or requiring great attention to sometimes trivial details: a fussy actuarial problem.
Full of superfluous details: “It can indeed be fussy, filling with ornament what should be empty space” (H.D.F. Kitto).
… unless you were calling my post full of superfluous details, which it was not.



The fussiness of your math reinforces the common believe that America needs to improve it math and science education. And in my opinion the education on philosophical and logical thinking needs to be improved too. The sadder part of your posting somehow implied that even the current percentage of asian students in top VA colleges was too high compared to the overall percentage in the commonwealth. You seems to prefer percentage-based quota system instead of performance- and merit-based one.

Well, first off, I am a humanities major. Second off, as you can see, I am at least fairly well rounded. I can’t do any multivariable calc or electrical engineering, but as far as logic goes, my mind works quite well. Pedsox liked my explanation of my math, which I would like to credit IB Math, for making me write out problems text book style, with explanations of why you did what you did, each step of the way. And finally, my post IN NO WAY implied that there were too many asians in top colleges. I was attempting to illustrate WHY the percentage of asians in top colleges was so much higher than their representation in the general population.