In addition to EAs and SAs, our samples also included some Southeast Asians (e.g., ethnic Filipinos, Indonesians, Malaysians, Thais, Vietnamese), but their sample sizes were much smaller given their small population sizes in the United States. † In many US law school classes, "class participation plays a substantial role in the student's final grade" ( 22), and grades are sometimes based solely on class participation. Similarly, in some US MBA courses, class participation accounts for 50% of the final grade (23, 24).

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