At The Atlantic Derek Thompson writes on racial diversity at the nation’s elite private and public universities:
There are any number of conclusions various people could draw from the data — the under-representation of blacks is, of course, striking; some might say the flattening out of Asians at elite private schools suggests an unofficial quota system — but I’ll let the graphs speak for themselves. This post isn’t meant to be a polemic, but rather a starting point, a primary source.
That’s a citation of Ron Unz’s work on the topic. But Thompson doesn’t advance the discussion. He only compares the demographic representation of each race group to their representation in different universities in a few graphs like this one:
Derek Thompson, The Atlantic
Unz’s argument was that even though the relative percentage of college-age Asians has doubled in this country over the past 20 years, their representation at America’s elite universities has remained constant. From the early 1990s to the present, Unz points out, Asian representation at Harvard has fallen from about 20% to about 16%. At universities like Cal Tech, which has a race-blind admissions process, Asian representation has kept pace with the overall population representation of Asians among college age youth. He wrote:
This decline might seem small. But these same years brought a huge increase in America’s college-age Asian population, which roughly doubled between 1992 and 2011, while non-Hispanic white numbers remained almost unchanged. Thus, according to official statistics, the percentage of Asian-Americans enrolled at Harvard fell by more than 50 percent over the last two decades, while the percentage of whites changed little. This decline in relative Asian-American enrollment was actually larger than the impact of Harvard’s 1925 Jewish quota, which reduced Jewish freshmen from 27.6 percent to 15 percent.
This is just to say that Thompson’s starting point is quite a bit behind Unz’s. And I have to admit, given The Atlantic’s tone of late, that I don’t have a lot of faith that anyone there really wants to understand the issue. Instead I think they want to figure out why blacks are so “underrepresented”. For whatever it’s worth, you can see that sentiment in the few comments left so far at Thompson’s blog post. Low black income is “endemic” and “privilege” explains why so few blacks graduate high school and then attend college (but Ivies too?). Amazing though that Jewish and Asian immigrants have done so relatively well.
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The average family income of Asian families has probably soared the past 20 years and maybe they’re being admitted and not being offered financial assistance and they’re opting for slightly less prestigious schools and getting scholarships.
Ivy’s started counting test scores for a lot less when looking at applicants. Asians get into Ivies mainly because their test scores are amazing.
This follows the pattenr noticed here and elsewhere that the only concern the MSM has is with the never closing black-white gap. No mention of hispanic underrepresentation, which is even more stark considering hispanics make up more of the US population. It’s even more stark for Hispanics since they usually outperform blacks on tests.
Hispanics aren’t the cool people in movies like Will Smith.
newest pet peeve: people who pour out beverages from their car onto the parking lot.
LOL, I do that almost every day. Coffee.
I can’t remember who said this, but it was something like the KKK and white liberals have the same migratory and breeding patterns. Seems they’ve got the same educational patterns as well.
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If East Asians are as smart and hard-working as they think they are then they can make schools in East Asia. They won’t have to deal with “discrimination” and us “dumb” folk if they do that. It’s not the responsibility of this country or any other Western country to provide educational opportunities for them. This is just another example of many of East Asians wanting it one way in their favor because we all know no East Asian country is filling it’s schools with foreign students. East Asians are a taker group.
East Asians affect school environment tremendously in a negative way. You can’t have the continuation of European excellence and innovation when you have a group that is dedicated to getting perfect grades and as a result take spots from white students. This stuff tends to have a domino effect which leads to workplaces becoming more East Asian.
Jews run the top schools in this country. They hide Jewish overreprestation by putting Jews in the white category. Jews can mask white underreprestation by doing this.
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OT: Another NYC subway attack (2 black female teens on 1 55 y/o black male). Explcit video.
http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Teenage-Girls-Attack-Man-4-Train-Subway-Fight-Assault-Arrest-188305481.html