I see that in the bay area as well (unless you’re also commenting on bay area). Asian male is the biggest over represented minority in colleges and the de facto admissions rates for them for places like HYPS are 2-3%. So I tell them if they have grad schools in their plans, they don’t have hooks (except b-school) and grad school is more important than undergrad in this country when it comes to correlation with success. Also adcoms make mistakes, a lot of them, they’re human and students shouldn’t think they’re some sort of infallible group. I told an Asain male that got wait listed, that the college made a mistake, plain and simple.
My advice going forward is for them to apply less to the colleges that prefer minorities or practice AA (not saying those are bad inherently) and apply to MIT, Cal Tech, Berkeley where admissions does not have a soft quota on Asians.