<p>I am chinese and knowing my race may or may not hurt my chances according to my friends, what should I say? What I am? Or decline to state?</p>
<p>Race is not a factor since prop 209 and is just used for data purposes. My teacher who went to Cal and UCLA told us that when the adcoms get the applications the ethnicity part is blacked out from them.</p>
<p>Can’t they still make inferences based on your last name? Just wondering.</p>
<p>Yes, they certainly can.</p>
<p>MikeC7, just curious – what did your friends say about race possibly hurting chances for admission? I had never heard about it before, so I’m curious.</p>
<p>They can guess your race by your last name and most certainly know your race based on your personal statement. If you are a minority and make it clear in your personal statement, the UC adcoms will take notice.</p>
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<p>Very true I forgot to mention this last night.</p>
<p>White people usually get first priority then African American/Latino/Native Americans then Asians. That’s how it usually works out in private schools. Plus statistics for law/med/pharm/vet schools show that Asians have to work harder to get admitted than do African Americans or White people.</p>
<p>Asian with 3.7< White with 3.6 < African American with 3.4
That trend occurs very frequently when African Americans/Latino etc with worse stats get chosen over Asians.</p>
<p>from prop 209</p>
<p>“The state shall not discriminate against, or grant preferential treatment to, any individual or group on the basis of race, sex, color, ethnicity, or national origin in the operation of public employment, public education, or public contracting.”</p>
<p>That’s for public institutions.</p>
<p>That makes sense…Look at USC, something like 40% of students are white</p>
<p>just say that you’re black. that could only help you, unless whoever’s reviewing ur app is a racist</p>
<p>Posted by jrmorse: "from prop 209</p>
<p>“The state shall not discriminate against, or grant preferential treatment to, any individual or group on the basis of race, sex, color, ethnicity, or national origin in the operation of public employment, public education, or public contracting.”"</p>
<p>We all know what prop 209 is. The point is that adcoms can still take notice to your race based on other signals in your application. There are also educational programs that are more available or only available to minorities that grant extra admission points by adcoms. </p>
<p>“White people usually get first priority then African American/Latino/Native Americans then Asians” </p>
<p>?? Neither whites nor Asians get any boost for their race. Only underrepresented minorities have the possibility of getting any boost.</p>
<p>Okay, Asians account for 4.7% of the US population and you’re saying they’re not underrepresented minority?
Plus, whites get priority because think about it… We live living in the United States of America, not China/Mexico/Africa.
I thought I mentioned that being white is advantageous when it comes to private schools.
Private schools can do whatever they want- take into account the Virginia Tech incident, many private schools decreased admission for Korean males.</p>
<p>Race does not play a part in the decision for college admissions. California’s famous Bakke v. UC Regents regarding race should be noted.</p>
<p>Okay your saying that the admissions officers are 100% disinterested in race. Why don’t we promote the admissions officers to district judges and to the supreme court because they aren’t arbitrary?</p>
<p>It’s like saying “racism does not exist.”</p>
<p><confused as to what advantages white applicants have over Asian applicants. Whites are definitely not considered a underrepresented minority.</p>
<p>edmfanatiq - Underrepresented minority refers to the make-up of the student body, not the country. Asians are NOT underrepresented in the student body of most schools.</p>
<p>yeah asians are not underrepresented in the UC’s at all.</p>
<p>^^ true! I live near UCSD, I’ve never seen so many Asians that go to one school as much UC</p>