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=====Asian American status in affirmative action=====
{{See also|Affirmative action|Asian quota}}

In the 1980s, one [[Ivy League]] school found evidence it had limited admissions of Asian American students. Because of their high degree of success as a group and over-representation in many areas such as [[college admissions]], most Asian Americans are not granted preferential treatment by [[affirmative action]] policies as are other minority groups.<ref name="Asian over-representation Washington Post"/>

Some schools choose lower-scoring applicants from other [[Race (human classification)|racial]] groups over Asian Americans in an attempt to promote racial [[Multiculturalism|diversity]] and to maintain some [[Proportionality (mathematics)|proportion]] to the society's racial [[Demographics of the United States|demographics]].<ref name="Asian over-representation Washington Post">{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55160-2005Mar21.html|title=Learning to Stand Out Among the Standouts|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=March 22, 2005|access-date=December 10, 2010|first=Jay|last=Mathews}}</ref><ref name="asianstudies3">{{Cite book|last=Ancheta|first=Angelo N.|title=Race, Rights, and the Asian American Experience|publisher=Rutgers University Press|year=2006|isbn= 978-0-8135-3902-7
}}</ref>{{rp|165}} In 2014, [[List of business schools in the United States|American business schools]] began a process to sort candidates based on their [[country of origin]] and region of the world they come from.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.stacyblackman.com/2014/11/14/separate-gmat-rankings-for-u-s-and-asian-applicants/|title=Separate GMAT Rankings for U.S. and Asian Applicants|website=Stacy Blackman Consulting – MBA Admissions Consulting|date=14 November 2014|access-date=2017-01-13}}</ref>