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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]UVA discriminates against Asians. It has the same % of Asians in UG as Michigan but VA has [b]a state has twice the concentration of Asians as Michigan.
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Asian enrollment in every other 'peer school' is a lot higher.

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Incorrect.  You are comparing apples and oranges.  There is a high Asian American concentration in the No. Va schools, including, Langley at 21% , McLean High at 22%, and Thomas Jefferson at 60-70%, but no where else in the state.  UVA is a state flagship for the entire state and tries to take students from every county in the states.  It can only take so many student (this year @676) from No. VA.  76 of those alone (mostly Asian Americans) come from T.J.  This is one of the reasons why it is so difficult for caucasian males and females to get into UVA from No.VA.   UVA isn't going to pick up Asian American students in the outlying counties near Kentucky and the Carolinas.  It's first priority to to take the best and brightest from all of the state.  To do so, it breaks down the state geographically by school district.  Those looking at the map (posted somewhere above) show Fairfax county in the lead with some 676 students going to UVA but when you consider 76 of those are TJ, and that FCPS has some 30 school, then they are also entertaining applicatoins from kids living in Fairfax but attending private and parochial schools, you end up with some pretty mad parents in NoVA.    But if you follow the map out to the west and south of the state you will find some counties sending 1 or zero students -hence the "redneck" joke that is sometimes made makes no sense.  Michigan's Asian American population is much more evenly spread out.[/quote]

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