Re: Male vs Female viewpoints in SF

On Feb 9, 7:28 pm, Stephen Graham <grah...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
James A. Donald wrote:
[...]
My claim is that people who are politically correct by
race and gender receive preference and that Asians are
politically incorrect by race.  

So why are there vastly more of them in the campus population than their
population share in the state would indicate?

The state population is an irrelevant comparison population. The vast
majority of University of Washington's students are from Seattle or
the immediate area, where the Asian population is much higher than in
other areas of Washington, and, more relevantly, where a fifth to a
quarter of graduating high school students are Asian.

Using University of Washington as a counter-example is unusual in
other respects, since as you noted there is a state law that
specifically disallows use of race in admissions. The Asian student
population is up about 25% since that law was passed, so either the
demographics of Seattle are changing rapidly, or the university really
was, prior to being explicitly disallowed, significantly
discriminating against Asians in the admissions process.

I believe that the majority of high school graduates are now going on
for higher education, though, so I wouldn't expect a radically
different population at non-elite schools than the high school
graduate population. This isn't the top 1%; this is the top 50% (or
close to it -- I think the acceptance rate was something like 70% at
University of Washington last year)
.

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