Colleges and universities have traditionally used race based admissions as a means of affirmative action and a way of increasing the diversity of the student body. I doubt if institutions of higher education are exactly discriminating against Asians. Since Asians tend to score so well on SAT's etc., the pool of qualified Asian applicants is larger than that of other minority groups. So, a policy that started out as a way to get qualified minority students a college education has back fired in the case of the Asian population.
However, there are still many schools that admit students solely on the basis of their high school GPA, SAT scores, etc. The majority of Asian students have no difficulty in getting in to these colleges.
In what other instances are Asians counted as white?
