No Asians Need Apply

That's exactly what "diversity" and "affirmative action" programs are saying to kids whose gene pool is closer to the China Sea than the Gulf of Mexico:

Today, the debate over diversity is driven largely by the unavoidable fact that, on average, African Americans and Hispanics are less academically qualified than whites and various other demographic groups. This was highlighted a few years ago during arguments over the University of Michigan Law School’s quota system. Justice Antonin Scalia noted during oral arguments before the Supreme Court that the easiest way to increase diversity would be to lower the law school’s standards. If diversity is “important enough to override the Constitution’s prohibition of racial distribution, it seems to me it’s important enough to override Michigan’s desire to have a super-duper law school.”

This is where the Orwellian savoir-faire tends to kick in. The school’s lawyers, along with columnists such as the Washington Post’s David Broder and countless others, insisted that increasing diversity never comes at the expense of quality.

Well, if the trade-off didn’t exist, we wouldn’t be having this debate. If there were a surplus of high SAT-scoring, straight-A blacks and Hispanics, no one would sue because they lost their slot to a less-qualified minority. The entire affirmative-action controversy is predicated on the unavoidable fact that there is a greater demand for well-qualified blacks than there is a supply. Period.

It's not the genes, it's the culture. If there were a real-life "Diff'rent Strokes" where a white kid were raised by an Indian family, that kid would have a greater chance of being a doctor than if he were raised by your typical 3rd generation American family. If your family pushes you to succeed, and sacrifices for your success, you'll likely succeed.

So why are we trying to bar these kids from entry into our top schools? Are the liberal academics in fact worried that the campus will become "too" Asian in nature?

Meritocracy works every time it's tried. I don't care how you pronounce my doctor's surname, but I care very much that he's a very knowledgeable clinician.