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Let's not exaggerate things. Comparing UC or Caltech is probably best (granted they use less controversial socioeconomic factors). Caltech is 43% Asian American

Let's not exaggerate things. Comparing UC or Caltech is probably best (granted they use less controversial socioeconomic factors). Caltech is 43% Asian American vs 27% at MIT. Note that the race-neutral number is somewhere in between (Asians disproportionately yield to schools that don't use racial preferences because they are discriminated against elsewhere)

rayiner 6y ago
The competitive admissions high school I went to (which has an SAT average similar to Ivy League universities) has a completely race/SES-blind admissions system and is now 70% Asian.
- usaar333 6y ago
  That's a function of local demographics as well though. Lowell high school in San Francisco has those numbers but that's in part due to (more affluent than average) whites long fleeing the SF public schools.
  - crimsonalucard5 6y ago
    But whites still are the majority in SF by a huge margin.
    - usaar333 6y ago
      ? Have you ever been to SF? That's not true for the general population and even less true for youth. And the white youth that are there tend to go to private schools https://priceonomics.com/where-are-all-the-white-people-in-san-francisco/#:~:text=The%20median%20percentage%20in%20elementary,%2C%20and%205.7%25%2C%20respectively.&text=Half%20of%20San%20Francisco's%20elementary,elementary%20schools%20are%20under%203.3%25 https://priceonomics.com/where-are-all-the-white-people-in-s....
      - crimsonalucard5 6y ago
        I live in SF, i grew up in the bay. https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Demographics_of_San_Francisco#:~:text=According%20to%202018%20US%20Census,from%20two%20or%20more%20races https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Demographics_of_San_Francisco#:~....
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crimsonalucard5 6y ago
>Asians disproportionately yield to schools No Asians go big or go home. They yield to all schools that are prestigious regardless of race-neutrality because all of these school (on the surface) appear to be race neutral.

rayiner 6y ago

The competitive admissions high school I went to (which has an SAT average similar to Ivy League universities) has a completely race/SES-blind admissions system and is now 70% Asian.

usaar333 6y ago
That's a function of local demographics as well though. Lowell high school in San Francisco has those numbers but that's in part due to (more affluent than average) whites long fleeing the SF public schools.
- crimsonalucard5 6y ago
  But whites still are the majority in SF by a huge margin.
  - usaar333 6y ago
    ? Have you ever been to SF? That's not true for the general population and even less true for youth. And the white youth that are there tend to go to private schools https://priceonomics.com/where-are-all-the-white-people-in-san-francisco/#:~:text=The%20median%20percentage%20in%20elementary,%2C%20and%205.7%25%2C%20respectively.&text=Half%20of%20San%20Francisco's%20elementary,elementary%20schools%20are%20under%203.3%25 https://priceonomics.com/where-are-all-the-white-people-in-s....
    - crimsonalucard5 6y ago
      I live in SF, i grew up in the bay. https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Demographics_of_San_Francisco#:~:text=According%20to%202018%20US%20Census,from%20two%20or%20more%20races https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Demographics_of_San_Francisco#:~....
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crimsonalucard5 6y ago

>Asians disproportionately yield to schools No Asians go big or go home. They yield to all schools that are prestigious regardless of race-neutrality because all of these school (on the surface) appear to be race neutral.