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[quote=Anonymous]Asian-American applicants tend to do better in admissions to the NESCACs than to the Ivies, adjusted for the NESCAC vs Ivy admission rates. The reason for this is that, generally speaking, the Ivy brand is more highly valued among first-generation Asian American parents than liberal arts colleges. Perhaps to the same degree it is among the American general population; maybe more. The notion of a small, non-STEM-focused, non-university off in the woods of New England just does not seem to resonate nearly as much with Asian-Americans as it does among white, upper-middle-class, prep-schooled northeasterners. Which make up a decent chunk of the NESCAC student body.
The result if this cultural non-preference by Asian-Americans is that they are rarer as applicants and thus more highly valued as a quota-filling demographic,  group. The neat trick that colleges do with their Asian-American students is classify them as "students of color" but not URMs. So if you see that a certain NESCAC campus is, say, 40% "students of color," you can expect a good portion of that to be Asian, and another good portion to be, say, affluent and often white-appearing Latin Americans. At most but not all NESCACs, the numbers of Black students are still pretty low.[/quote]

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