This report details why false assumptions can lead to misinformed policy and practice that can be harmful to AAPI students. It explores key prevailing fictions about the AAPI community and reveals how the “model minority” stereotype is detrimental. There are now almost 17 million Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in the United States, and the term AAPI shelters 48 different ethnic groups. Results show that AAPI students are evenly distributed in community and four-year colleges in the United States with two hundred colleges and universities enrolling two-thirds of all AAPIs attending college nationally. And whereas many AAPI college students pursue degrees in science, technology, engineering, and math, a large proportion of AAPI students obtain degrees in the social sciences and the humanities.

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