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The College-Choice Process for Asian Pacific Americans: Ethnicity and SocioEconomic Class in Context
- The Review of Higher Education
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 27, Number 4, Summer 2004
- pp. 527-551
- 10.1353/rhe.2004.0025
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This study examines differential college-choice behavior and outcomes among Asian Pacific American (APA) student subpopulations with the goal of examining the extent to which the Asian American population is, in fact, a homogeneous "model minority" in college destinations and decision-making processes. The results suggest that their postsecondary decisions, opportunities, and destinations vary across and within ethnic and socioeconomic class subpopulations, challenging common assumptions about these students and their participation in U.S. higher education.