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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP you should steer your child towards schools in California. [/quote]

Why?  Great schools and a great state but why? [/quote]
Prop 209 in CA means universities can no longer look at race.  This bumped up Asian Am. representation in the top univ., as expected.   So,a few years later, the universities changed their admissions criteria to just take the top x% of each HS to make it more equitable.

[img]https://www.eastbaytimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/20130621_104130_eoak0623affirmWeb.jpg?w=756[/img]
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Look at the Asian line. It actually did not go up.

So, this huge racial disadvantage you perceive was not revealed by a change in the policy.[/quote]

The chart is the admissions rate, not the number of admitted, or the balance of Asians as a percentage of the overall student population. The relative movement is what's meaningful for this graph, What we see is that overall, AA, AI, and Latino admissions rates went down, white admissions held steady, and Asian American admissions went up. There is a pronounced downward trend for Berkeley for all groups, meaning Berkeley got more selective overall, but the slope of Asian American is the flattest. These graphs combine to show that Asian Americans were the fictims of racial discrimination under Affirmative Action. Very clearly.  [/quote]
PP here who posted the graph. Thank you for writing up the data analysis. The subheadline on the chart clearly states "admission rates".   And a semi-intelligent person would realize that CA population has grown in 15 years, so more students are applying, while the number of seats aren't keeping up with the population growth; hence, the drop in admissions RATE across the demographics.

I didn't realize that some educated adults couldn't understand simple charts.  Clearly some people lack that skill set.  Maybe that  person got into college via affirmative action.[/quote]

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