Upset by the insinuation and portrayal of them as a uniformly privileged population, Asian-American and Pacific Islander students at UCLA tried to point out that many ethnic subgroups were underrepresented on campus and, partly because of this, disadvantaged. They, along with AAPI students at other UC campuses, spent many months calling for administrators to expand and refine their data collection and reporting of their racial demographic.
The following year, the Office of the President announced that it would, on its standardized UC application for undergraduate admissions, expand the number of AAPI ethnicities from eight to 23.
