<p>I had noticed the same phenomenon myself. I looked at the list of NMSFs of 3 schools in my area, 2 very large excellent highly ranked public schools and my son’s very small private school and noticed 80% or more were asian names. The interesting analysis is my son’s school which is highly selective with an extremely motivated, high performing group of students from a very high socioeconomic group and very supportive parents and low asian representation; 5 out of 6 NMSFs (total class size is 90) are Asian. </p>