<p>18-20% is speculation - not announced by anyone who matters.</p>
<p>Hahaha I love how they talk about diversity and don’t include the stats for Asians. I’m screwed >.<</p>
<p>@lifeisbeautiful9 - Exact same thought. It’s okay, we can be screwed Asians together.</p>
<p>Don’t worry fellow Asians, we’ll always have the best food.</p>
<p>I am asian too. But this is good news. If few URM’s apply, admission ppl would be very cautious not to select too many our kind of people.</p>
<p>Hahahaha sebelius 
true that</p>
<p>I’m hoping a lot of the listed URMs are joke applications.
why can’t they be race-blind gah.
Asian Invasion;)</p>
<p>I really wish there were race-blind. The other day I was at a conference with students from literally the best and most expensive private schools in the country who were applying as part-Hispanic or something. THEY ARE NOT DISADVANTAGED. Rant over. </p>
<p>Great food is always excellent. Hmmm . . joke applications . . .I didn’t think about that. But SCEA apps are probably not jokes. RD, I would say yes, but not for this.</p>
<p>Let’s not go overboard guys. Unless Asians are being held to a higher standard than “Whites” it’s not really discrimination against them in particular, even though they are a minority. Having more “URM” applicants may make it harder to be accepted under EA, but might fill the unofficial quotas earlier and could make for a more wide-open RD for those deferred. No, it’s not ideal, but I don’t think it’s bad news that word about potential advantages of EA has gotten out more widely. Who knows, maybe excellent EA applicants that are deferred have an advantage such as some kind of “almost made it in EA” tag. Anybody know if that’s true? Would save some work for application readers.</p>
<p>@notakid
i’m pretty sure Asians are held at a higher standard than people of other races, even though adcoms won’t admit it…</p>
<p>Surely a high number of URM applicants is good for us Asians, because from what I’ve read on this site, we’re not exactly competing for the same spots.</p>
<p>Sebelius is my new hero. Back off, Avengers.</p>
<p>No [required] supplement + spare $75 + nowhere to apply early = crapshoot.</p>
<p>@pylades - agree!</p>
<p>I seriously cannot wait until December 15th… I think my mind will self-destruct by that point in time.</p>
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<p>Same here. I have so many essays to write by 12/1 and a **** ton more to finish by 12/31.</p>
<p>Seriously, Harvard without black and hispanic brothers? I wouldn’t have applied if that’s the case. </p>
<p>I don’t think Harvard has higher standard for Asians. You just need to stand out from the Asian applicant pool by having super low scores. Me----->SAT 1900’s. X]</p>
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<p>my SAT subject test scores (results tomorrow eep!) will be in the same boat.
i lost my mind in the test room. expecting ridiculously low scores.</p>
<p>I’m trying not to think about the demographic end of things, as a Caucasian (and finaid-seeking) applicant. COLORBLIND FOREVER, WOOT. Since I’m not allowed to have ‘white pride’ or anything, lol. Racefail.</p>
<p>I don’t think Harvard will go URM crazy. I think that minorities will make up around the same percentage for this class as the class of 2015. As someone said before, it is possible that most of the URM quota could be filled during EA which would allow for more freedom later, but who knows… lol. </p>
<p>As a minority that applied to Harvard SCEA, I am feeling it right now. I believe the competition is stiff. And here I was thinking I was being strategic by applying early… little did I know that others (lots of minorities) had my same plan ;)</p>
<p>I expected the number of SCEA applicants to be higher.</p>