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Anonymous wrote:The sad reality is that people tend to flee when classes become overwhelmingly asian. While it's not a happy statistic, the reality is whiteness still confers a huge level of "prestige" and wherever white people go, the "elite" status will follow. Ivies that allow their population to become overwhelmingly asian will find both white and black people less interested in attending. There are many incredibly difficult and rigorous schools in East Asia that blow many western schools out of the water, but you still have people flocking en masse to the western schools that were predominantly white for the majority of their existence. Who knows why, but it does seem that whiteness itself does confer some kind of desirability and, again, prestige, on its own. So if white kids get turned off by a predominantly asian population taking all the spots in Harvard, and say, flock to Clemson or College of Charleston or whatever, you can bet those schools will become the next schools with cache. It truly is a never ending cycle.
LMFAO. no. smart white kids are not scared by asians. the ivies and other top-15 universities will remain the schools with all the cache because those schools have the highest percent of smart kids. the smartest kids want to study with other brilliant kids, regardless of race, and many of them prefer racial diversity and enjoy meeting similar students from all over the world. A high percent of internationalism is something unique to the ivy/+ branding of said schools: they draw brilliance from everywhere. The cache is not going to magically move to schools that do not have top global reputations, which globally is based on Nobel-level faculty or grads, research, and smarts of the students. None of the weird BS equity markers the USNews ranking over-elevated last fall.