<p>Is this notion of an Asian person having less success entering a college because they are the major minority considered a nation-wide thing or is it specific to certain school?</p>
<p>For example, at the University of Miami, Hispanics are the majority minority (25%). Does this mean that Asians (5%) are back to being a URM and hispanics viewed as ORMs, or are the Aisans still considered ORMs because on a nation wide basis, they are the most popular?</p>
<p>asian consist of only 2% of the us population so yes 5% is orm</p>
<p>An excellent question, and I believe the answer is that it's particular to that institution, as to who is "over" and "under" represented. I say that because I know, for example, that MIT made it public a couple of years ago that they were particularly looking for women, and (LOL) that's not a national under- representation.</p>
<p>My understanding also is that there's not a particular concern about "under" and "over" until/unless there is an obvious imbalance developing -- which clearly was historically true, and for decades, for whites at Ivies. If a particular cultural/ethnic subgroup is dominating applications & acceptances to any institution, the college would then begin to look at "others" as under-represented.</p>
<p>Besides which, it's super-smart for any student to apply where he or she has the greatest possible advantages for entrance. That is why East Asians applying from the Northeast to an LAC in the West have a far greater chance of admission, due to regionality, than if applying to LAC's in the Northeast. That's not just a logical guess: admissions results confirm this.</p>
<p>Asians are URMs at some school, mostly smaller LACs in the South and MW. There are schools that definitely want more Asians, they just tend to be schools not popular with Asian candidates.</p>
<p>darkhope, colleges are not going to limit their Asian student population to 2%. This is not to the college's advantage. They want excellent students, which will include a high number of Asian applicants. They just don't want 47% qualified middle class Asian-Americans, 47% qualified Anglos, and 6% qualified all others (internationals, poorer Asians, accomplished Blacks & Hispanics, Native Americans, etc). They want more variety in the pool of excellence.</p>
<p>And yes, suze is right on the opportunities in the south & MW. Someone on another thread bitterly mentioned that the poster didn't want to go to college far from home. But no one's entitled to an acceptance near their home.</p>