Colleges looking for Asian diversity

[ucbalumnus]

@twoinanddone

However, just because she looks like the other Asians doesn’t make her culturally like them. She was raise American. She likes country music and Mexican food and surfer clothes. I asked her if she had interactions with other Asian students at school and she said the language differences were hard to overcome even for studying and group projects, and just entirely too much work for socializing.

She’d feel more at home at a school in Maine with 2% Asians than in Southern Cal with 30% if those in Cal were not raised as mainstream Americans.

USC undergraduates are about 21% Asian American according to https://nces.ed.gov/collegenavigator/?q=southern+california&id=123961#enrolmt , so there should be no shortage of “mainstream Americans” among them. (International undergraduates, not necessarily all from Asia, make up another 14% of undergraduate enrollment there.)