<p>A friend of mine is Hispanic, has AMAZING ECs, and will probably be the valedictorian of her school! But then again, her school is located in Harlem and is mostly Hispanic.</p>
<p>She's seriously an incredible girl though: very bright, takes a lot of initiative, wants to go to Brown, and deserves to!</p>
<p>Fabrizio, I agree with you 100% that many people think discrimination against Asians is OK. It is sad. </p>
<p>Except for the dominant whites, all others (Asian, Hispanic or Blacks) start with certain disadvantages which can be historical, social, cultural, etc.
However, compared to everyone else a huge advantage Asians seem to possess is family togetherness. Because of their family stability and cohesiveness they seem to come close to the whites in education and income generation. I suppose that one who has strong family values works hard, saves money, doesn't do drugs, unwanted pregnancy etc.
2005 Survey by the Census Bureau shows as follows.
% of families in the total population versus % share of families in the lowest income bracket:
White alone (unmixed) 82% vs 71%
Asian alone 4% vs 3%
Black alone 12% vs 22%
Hispanics (mixed) 13% vs 21%</p>
<p>The above data suggest that Blacks and Hispanics do need some support to come up in the society.</p>
<p>I dont have a stand against this minority/race factor in college admissions. Being a hispanic I hope, it could give me a little help:P. However I would not like to be admitted over a better student just because im latin and hes asian. It would not be fair. It is true that hispanics in the united states are socioeconomically disavantaged, and thus their children must have jobs that kinda take their time from studying. It is not because latin people are stupid ¬¬, what do you think in argentina, panama, mexico or chile there are no good students?
I dont not know in other schools, but basing on my personal experience:
I moved from south america to the united states in august of this year, and I noticed that I was the only hispanic guy taking aps or honor classes ... it depressed me. but it gave me a insight of reality. There are great asian,black,white and hispanic students, but as is clear in most high schools asian and white are the highest percentage.
uhm and ...i hope i get in nyu or uchicago ? anyone know how they look at the whole minority thing</p>
<p>Haha, well... I'm half Asian and half Hispanic, so where does this put me?</p>
<p>I think adcom will have a joyous time with my application. :P</p>
<p>the valedictorian of my school in texas is hispanic, with excellent ECs. he recently got into MIT.</p>
<p>Hispanics, like other URM, have an edge because they are usually underrepresented on campus, not because they are from a race with a low average IQ.</p>
<p>proletariat2-yeah i never saw this sorspanky but im guessing his posts were deleted or this was from another thread?</p>
<p>Hey there-</p>
<p>I'm Half Puerto Rican Half German-So I reap the benefits of affirmative action even though I have blond hair blue eyes...hmmmm.</p>
<p>But I am 5th in my class at school, officially listed as Hispanic, and got Deferred from Yale. Go to <a href="https://www.collegedata.com/cs/admissions/admissions_profile.jhtml?profileId=68751736%5B/url%5D">https://www.collegedata.com/cs/admissions/admissions_profile.jhtml?profileId=68751736</a>
for my stats.</p>
<p>heated stff</p>
<p>And very entertaining as well.</p>
<p>jgonzo - I looked at your profile, and I think you got rejected because there weren't any EC's that truly stood out. Your academics look great (maybe a little low for a Yale SAT score, but since you are half Hispanic I'm sure they would have given you an advantage), but the EC's look trite and unoriginal. :/ Bahh.</p>
<p>I'm half Hispanic also, but my other half is Asian...let's just say that when most people look at me, they think "Asian."</p>