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A high school student with perfect SAT scores and nine Advanced Placement courses under his belt should have his pick of colleges, right? If the student in question is Asian, not necessarily. Takethe Asian-American dynamo with these very credentials denied admission to Princeton, Harvard, Stanford, the University of Pennsylvania, and MIT. The student filed a lawsuit against Yale in 2006 allegingthat the prestigious university rejected him because of his race, the Boston Globe reports. Although that suit has yet to be settled, an increasing number of Asian Americans say that admissionsofficers at the nation's most elite universities have what's been dubbed an "Asian ceiling." This prevents the Asian population of the student body from exceeding 20 percent.
At Harvard, for example, thenumber of Asian students has remained relatively static over the past five years, according to the Globe. Asian Americans compose 17.8 percent of students Harvard admitted last month, up just threepercent from a decade ago. But the demographics of the University of California indicate that Asian Students should make up far more of the student body at prestigious universities nationwide. Why?Because 14 years ago, a measure known as Proposition 209 went into effect in California which put an end to race-based admissions. Today, Asian-American students make up 40 percent of the student body atthe state's top school--the University of California, Berkeley. That's more than double the amount of Asian Americans at Ivy League institutions. The difference? Ivy League schools may consider racein the admissions process.

"If institutions are using race to keep Asian-American students out, it's based on a fear that these 'other' students are taking over our institutions," says Sam Museus,an Asian-American studies professor at the University of Massachusetts, told the Globe.

Admissions officers deny capping the number of Asian-American students at schools, but a 2009 book called No...