Discuss “The different faces of race”

Approximately 24 percent of Carnegie Mellon’s undergraduate student population identifies itself as Asian-American or Pacific Islander, according to recent statistics from Carnegie Mellon’s department of Institutional Research & Analysis. The new data marks a 0.7 percent increase in this figure since fall 2003. In comparison, all other minorities combined make up less than 11 percent.

Carnegie Mellon is not the only school with a high Asian student population. Other top universities across the U.S. share a similar number of Asian students. At the University of California, Berkeley, 46 percent of first-year students are Asian, according to a January 7 article in The New York Times. MIT is at 27 percent, and Stanford is at 24 percent....