Asian-Americans make up only 4 percent of the US population but account for a quarter of the student body at elite universities like Stanford, Columbia, and Cornell.
That statistic is a bit misleading because the percentage of Asian-American teens in California is 13% and the percentage in New York is 12%. So they are overrepresented, but not by quite as much as looking at the overall share of U.S. population.
I don't know the percentage, but there are lots of Asians in the DC area - perhaps not enough in either MD or VA to show up much in state-wide numbers, but the DC area is a different matter. My older kids HS had lots of Asians when they were there in the late 80s-early90s - and is now over 30% Asian, I think.
That statistic is a bit misleading because the percentage of Asian-American teens in California is 13% and the percentage in New York is 12%. So they are overrepresented, but not by quite as much as looking at the overall share of U.S. population.
ReplyDeleteI don't know the percentage, but there are lots of Asians in the DC area - perhaps not enough in either MD or VA to show up much in state-wide numbers, but the DC area is a different matter. My older kids HS had lots of Asians when they were there in the late 80s-early90s - and is now over 30% Asian, I think.
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