ABSTRACT
Asian American students have a wide reputation for extraordinary educational achievement. The myth that Asian Americans are a "model minority" tends to perpetuate the view that all Asian American students are high achievers with very few needs within the academic realm. Predictors of college academic success vary by ethnicity. Thomas and Stanley suggested that academic aptitude and achievement test scores, rather than high school grades, are often better predictors of college performance for blacks than for whites. When high school grades and College Board Achievement Test scores were used as predictors of university freshman grades, the results were consistent with those found for high school grades and Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) scores. When high school grades and Achievement Test scores are used, provide convergent support for the findings when the SAT is used-namely, mathematical skills are better predictors of academic performance than are verbal skills for Asian American but not for white students.
