[skeeter]

For immigrants once associated with menial or subservient work, the transformation has been titanic.

Dunno, a great number of those asians in silicon valley are H1Bs.

[tbw2]

From “For Asian Americans, a changing landscape on college admissions”, http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-adv-asian-race-tutoring-20150222-story.html#page=1

African Americans received a “bonus” of 230 points, Lee says.

She points to the second column.

“Hispanics received a bonus of 185 points.”

The last column draws gasps.

Asian Americans, Lee says, are penalized by 50 points — in other words, they had to do that much better to win admission.