UC makes landmark decision to drop ACT and SAT requirement for admission

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The link to the Washington Post article I shared in my post #105 above speaks to this point to show that it was not Asian American investments in education that brought about a shift in their economic fortunes. “Asians used to be paid like blacks,” Hilger said. “But between 1940 and 1970, they started to get paid like whites.” Why? According to scholars, it is because of “the slow dismantling of discriminatory institutions after World War II, and the softening of racist prejudices.” This same dismantling of institutional racism and softening of prejudice did not occur for African Americans. Why? In part because of the “model minority myth” that blames Black people for the legacy of antiblack racism by pointing to the Asian as model minority to vindicate ongoing institutional racism.

Immigration may have played a larger role. Immigration rules and patterns favored the immigration of people like graduate students and skilled workers. Since the prior Asian American population was very small, the more recent immigrants from Asia, selected for higher educational attainment, defined the Asian American population as a whole in the minds of many, and were more likely to work in higher skill higher pay jobs. Immigrants from Africa show similar patterns, but are few in number compared to the existing African American population, so they do not affect popular perception or overall stats on educational attainment, pay levels, etc. by very much.