Moreover, Asian American immigrants encompass groups as diverse as Vietnamese and Hmong and Cambodian immigrants fleeing war and persecution, Chinese graduate students coming to study astrophysics and staying, and Filipino immigrants coming to work in healthcare. The educational outcomes of these groups are quite diverse; in fact if you are one of eight children living in poverty with illiterate parents you don't just magically do well in school because of your Asian heritage. If you want some vivid illustrations of divergent Asian American trajectories in the US, check out tensions around the Siskiyou fire...

> Those long established Chinese families represent a tiny minority of Asian American university students.

I’m sure it doesn’t help that admissions discriminate against them because they look similar to the international students and first generation immigrants.