<p>Be sure not to generalize that all Koreans, Chinese, and Japanese students are like that ;)</p>
<p>From my experience, those stories seems to be the most extreme examples :D</p>
<p>Sephiroth226 I applaud you, I get the same bulls***t about being black/female</p>
<p>how the f***k does having straight A's throughout high school, taking 12 AP courses (4's and 5's), getting a 2200 on the SAT, have absolutely NOTHING to do with me getting into Brown. Well I guess being black automatically makes me "underqualified", not all blacks are the same ghetto idiots who don't give a damn about school that everyone has come to assume that those 5% at the elitist colleges are. I grew up in the UK (10yrs) and my academic brilliance was never deemed strange or unnatural for someone of my skin color,but when I came to the U.S. people in my school were shocked that I even signed up for AP.</p>
<p>I know that most blacks don't take AP but there's no need to look at me as if in question as to whether I can even read and comprehend the registration for "AP bio" ("you're" in AP Lang and Comp, REALLY? this is what someone asked me the first day I walked into that class and that same blonde has a D in the class [this surprises most ppl as does me having an A]) I'm not trying to offend anyone, honestly, but just maybe my admittance to Brown had something to do with my actually application not my ethnicity.</p>
<p>Good post, Floridastudent
And big congratulations for getting into Brown</p>
<p>URM = Under-represented minority (Blacks, Hispanics, Native Americans)
ORM = Over-represented minority (Asians, Jews, Indians)</p>
<p>Well, I still believe in AA. I'm not sure about your family, but my father had eight brothers and sisters, and none of them, including he, graduated from high school. On my mother's side, only two-fifths of her siblings graduated from high school, my mother being fortunate enough to be a HS grad as well.</p>
<p>As far as ethnicity goes, yeah, I'm a Latino, with both of my parents being immigrants whose first language is Spanish, not English. Being in gifted classes throughout middle school, and honors and AP classes throughout high school, Ive noticed the segregation that occurs, and the academic division between Whites/Asians and underrepresented minorities. </p>
<p>AA is not some sort of welfare payment, or entitlement, to unqualified minority students, but a leg up in the college admissions process. Ive overcome several socioeconomics barriers, with work seen more important than an education. Ive never even seen my parents pick up a book, save for the bible. </p>
<p>I may go to a minority-majority high school, but being Salutatorian (grades for the term have not been sent yet, but I received straight As again, so I might just be Valedictorian) has been one of my most proudest accomplishments. I may have done poorly on the SAT, with a 1290 Math/Verbal, but considering just how relatively few minorities achieve that score, I even find that an accomplishment. </p>
<p>What Im trying to say is that there are very few high-achieving minorities, and if the college admissions process were strictly meritocratic, based on nothing but numbers, campuses at the elite colleges would be homogenous with Whites/Asians being the overwhelming majority. </p>
<p>If youre ever bored, check out the College Boards website. A 1300, a score equal to about the 90th percentile of college-bound seniors, is achieved by less than 1.5% of all African Americans, a little less than 2,000 students. Where would these students be qualified to attend if race were not a factor?</p>
<p>Sephiroth, Felicitaciones! FloridaStudent, kudos to you!</p>