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>extremely flawed
Explain Stanford's discrepancies.
Asians make up 17.6% of USC's population. Explain that - LA is one of the highest density Asian places in the United States.
You don't think students who apply to UCLA are going to also send in an application to USC?
Asians make up 10% of Claremont McKenna, 20% of Harvey Mudd,12.9% of Pomona, 18.3% of Scripps. Explain that.
Asians make up 11% of Pepperdine's population. Explain that.
The only private institution that does not discriminate against Asians is Caltech. Caltech prides itself as a merit based, race blind school, and does not practice affirmative action.
And we see in Caltech a 42% Asian student makeup.
Need more evidence?
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1594035822/ref=as_li_tf_til?tag=pragmom-20&camp=0&creative=0&linkCode=as1&creativeASIN=1594035822&adid=1EQANJJ2S3CHT99N027E&
Published by a Princeton professor.
It's incredibly misleading when people try to justify affirmative action by suggesting Asians only make up 5% of the population but are 20% representation in school. Well, they also make up something like 30-40% of the applicant pool.
>Additionally, the California schools are all public institutions, while most of the compared schools are private, which adds a whole new dimension of difference.
Right. The UCs are accountable to the public so they can't get away with bullshit so easily. That's why we see a REASONABLE number of Asians in the UCs (not too many; it's a proportionally fair amount), percentages very closely mirroring the applicant pool with differences of <5%, as obeying the laws of probability.
And everything I mention still ignores that on average Asian performance should be expected to be higher than other races given the average Asian household income is the greatest of all races in the United States ($14,000 per year higher than White Americans according to the US Census, which is a significant number - enough to buy you a world class tutor and plenty of college prep programs). Academic success and wealth are closely correlated (do I need to prove this? I'll let you google academics and wealth correlation and find out for yourself if you don't believe this) This is not even going into the speculative stuff, like the type of discipline and cultural values Eastern Asians hold in education.