<p>Since most Asians are math/science types (I have no factual support for this, just observations,) would being an Asian who wants to focus on humanities/social sciences be an advantage? In other words, do schools look at diversity in each department, or just diversity within the entire college/university? Would this kind of student at least be at less of a disadvantage than the math/science Asians?</p>
<p>Asian? Advantage in admissions? Hahaha funny one...</p>
<p>Seriously though, it will help <em>marginally</em> as in very marginally. It might help more if you show your dedication through extracurriculars and stuff. But it will set you apart from the lion's share of asians applying to college.</p>
<p>It will not give you an advantage, but it may lessen your disadvantage.</p>
<p>I am sure that if you score very high on the non-math and non-science SATs it will work in your favor a little, since admission officers are used to seeing high scores more in math and science areas.</p>
<p>Apply to schools with few Asians, schools in the deep South for example.</p>
<p>yeah, the good old south.</p>
<p>You'll be at an even more of a disadvantage, because schools realize their lack of strong science/math now and all want to up that. You won't even have what most other asians have, while still being asian. Unless of course you're some Monet like painter.</p>
<p>Alabama.</p>
<p>Hahaha.</p>
<p>Mississippi's a good one too.</p>
<p>Or you could try one of those preppy colleges.</p>
<p>Yeah. Go to the south and get lynched. People in teh south are highly racist in general. Ok, that's an exageration, but you do get quite a lot of leers.</p>
<p>I don't think Asians have a particualar advantage anywhere, these days. They're an "over-represented minority."</p>
<p>Thats a bit unfair don't you think.... "over-represented minorities."</p>
<p>We make up 5% of the population... Hispanics more than triple our population... African-Americans also.</p>
<p>ANyways, I just think it's unfair that they put Asians at a disadvantage solely based on, well, their race.</p>
<p>It's discrimination, however you try to justify it (affirmative action)... You're giving someone a disadvantage in being accepted into your college ONLY BECAUSE of the color of his/her skin.</p>
<p>Now that IS discriminiation.</p>
<p>I agree with you completely. At my daughter's high school this year, a brilliant Asian-American girl applied to Harvard and was turned down, while a good, but lesser student of a different minority background was accepted. The first girl's reaction was sad, but probably true: "I guess Harvard had enough Asian applicants." She was accepted at Yale, where she will be attending.</p>
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<p>Thats a bit unfair don't you think.... "over-represented minorities."</p>
<h2>We make up 5% of the population... Hispanics more than triple our population... African-Americans also.</h2>
<p>You just proved your own point. The Asian population in universities is commonly staggeringly disproportionate to the population in the country. 24% at Stanford, 41% at UCB, 37% at UCLA, 17% at Harvard, 14% at NYU, 16% at Cornell, 25% at University of Washington, etc, etc, etc. Over-represented is an understatement.</p>
<p>Yeah, I'm asian and I'm for affirmative action actually. </p>
<p>Sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do to fix the country. In general, asians should understand that, especially Chinese :D.</p>
<p>Most asians had a lucky upbringing with strong education focused families...this is the admission processes way of making you pay for it.</p>
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Actually, this year UCB is 43% Asian and UCLA is 40% Asian. :rolleyes:</p>
<p>Yeah what's wrong with you asians. Why u gotta have such education focused upbringings. Why can't u all just drop out of college. Well!</p>
<p>So I can have a better chance of getting in. HA!</p>
<p>10 characters</p>
<p>^^^ If your name is your handle "JPNguyen" wouldn't you be Asian, since Nguyen is only like the most popular Vietnamese name and as far as I know Vietnamese people are considered Asian.</p>
<p>Or was that a very sarcastic statement? My sarcasm meter isn't working right now.</p>
<p>"Most asians had a lucky upbringing with strong education focused families...this is the admission processes way of making you pay for it"</p>
<p>total crap. what about black students with strong education focused family? they don't have to pay for it? such bs. you might as well make seperate sat's for different races, give the harder one to asians.</p>
<p>hey, anyone who feels like he/she's being discriminated against just because of having an "unfortunate" skin color, there's always an ALTERNATIVE: undergo a surgery and change your entire SKIN COLOR to whatever new color(s) you wish (like Michale Jackson...)</p>
<p>back to the topic: it lessens you're disadvantage a little, but it certainly gives zero if not negative advantage. </p>
<p>the lucky upbring thing is really BS.
I know an african american who's parents both graduated from ivies. He's still in an advantage position. Strong education thing : admissions should look at your background, not skin color.
USA likes to call itself a country of freedom and equality, but it's total crap. Too bad it's still one of the strongest countries now in the world.</p>