FYI, interesting article. Would be interesting to get comments from admissions offices.

Asian-American Quotas at Ivy League Universities?
November 28, 2012 - America's elite Ivy League universities appear to follow a de facto Asian-American admissions quota policy.

Ron Unz provides detailed statistical evidence that the pattern of Asian-American enrollment over the last two decades is remarkably similar to what followed the establishment of Ivy League Jewish quotas in the mid-1920s. Soon after the U.S. Department of Justice closed its early 1990s investigation into allegations of anti-Asian admissions bias at the Ivy League:

. . Asian-American numbers at Harvard, Yale, and
Columbia began large declines.
. . Asian-American enrollments throughout the
Ivy League strangely converged to very similar levels.
. . The college-age population of
Asian-Americans doubled during 1993-2011 as did their top academic awards, but none of this was reflected in their Ivy League enrollments.
. . As one example, the percentage of
college-age Asian-Americans at Harvard dropped by more than 50% during 1993-2011, a larger decline than that suffered by Jews following the 1925 establishment of ethnic quotas.
. . Meanwhile race-neutral Caltech saw its
Asian-American enrollment increase closely in line with the growth of the college-age Asian-American population.
. . Comparing the Ivy League enrollments of
Asian-Americans with those of high-performing white subpopulations rules out general "diversity"factors as an explanation for these patterns.

See "The Myth of American Meritocracy"in the December American Conservative, or online here:
http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/the-myt
h-of-american-meritocracy/

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Robert Dujarric (robertdujarric[at]gmail.com)

Temple University, Japan Campus