When people make this argument, they often fail to mention that another reason for such a high population of Asians at the UCs is that California has the largest Asian population of any US state. So of course you would expect there to be more Asians at the colleges here. In contrast, the University of Michigan also doesn’t use AA and 13% of their population is Asian, because Michigan has much less Asians. But people never seem to use Michigan as an example…I wonder why.