[bugglebeetle]

> First generation immigrants are still a tiny minority of the population

Not in California. Last I remember, something like a quarter of the state’s population is foreign born.

[svnt]

It looks like you are roughly right, but still, a sampling of 8 students from this population is not likely to come up that way (by my calculation 1.4x10^-7)

> All Students in Higher Education in California

> 2,737,000

> First-Generation Immigrant Students

> 387,000

14% are first-generation immigrants

from: https://www.higheredimmigrationportal.org/state/california/

[AnimalMuppet]

That's still a 1-in-4^8 = 1-in-65536 longshot.

[dragonwriter]

Its really not; hiring within a single firm, especially for related functions, will tend fo have correlated biases, rather than being a random sample from even the pool of qualified applicants, much less the broader population.