My question is simple: why so few Asians at University of California Santa Barbara? Freshman admissions profiles are easy enough to get for the UC system, while Ron Unz has put his demographic data online. For what it’s worth 27 and 9 percent of the children in the California educational system (primary and secondary) were non-Hispanic white and Asian in 2010-2011.
Freshmen admitted profile:
| GPA | ACT | SAT Reading | SAT Math | SAT Writing | White | Asian | |
| Berkeley | 4.16 | 30 | 674 | 701 | 692 | 30.3 | 37.4 |
| Davis | 4.03 | 28 | 611 | 658 | 632 | 33.6 | 37.7 |
| Irvine | 4.02 | 27 | 588 | 645 | 611 | 20.2 | 49.1 |
| UCLA | 4.11 | 30 | 659 | 702 | 681 | 31.5 | 34.3 |
| Merced | 3.57 | 23 | 525 | 559 | 533 | 19.5 | 29.3 |
| Riverside | 3.7 | 25 | 550 | 595 | 566 | 15.6 | 37.6 |
| UCSD | 4.07 | 29 | 639 | 691 | 661 | 24.3 | 45 |
| UCSB | 3.96 | 28 | 614 | 654 | 635 | 44.6 | 15.9 |
| UCSC | 3.78 | 26 | 573 | 597 | 586 | 42.4 | 20.8 |
My impression is that Santa Barbara is relatively weak in the sciences in comparison to an equivalent school like Irvine. Note that at four of the UC’s non-Hispanic whites are underrepresented, using the source population profiles as the benchmark (and in fact, if I limited it to just 18 year olds, a cohort which probably has more than 27 percent non-Hispanic whites, then they may be underrepresented at a few other campuses).