<p>But my mom didn't put my dad (the Asian part of me) on my birth certificate. Can I say I'm Asian on my application for colleges? I don't have any communication with my biological father and I don't really see it happening, I don't know how I would find him. Can I really say I'm Asian without any proof other than I look Asian.</p>
<p>You can. I’m not sure why you would want to for colleges though.</p>
<p>Are you trying to hide the fact that you’re half alien? Why don’t you want to be identified as your other side’s ethnicity? Identifying as Asian won’t help your chances, may hurt them, and on the whole will be a tiny part of the application. I don’t get your motivation.</p>
<p>Clueless here – why do you say putting that you are Asian would hurt your chances?
Maybe it’s my west coast view of things, but most of the schools we toured for my son seemed to have very large Asian student populations, and I’m talking about excellent schools (Cal, Stanford, UC San Diego…)</p>
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<p>As a general rule, Asians are over-represented minorities in colleges. Being Asian is often regarded as a disadvantage in the college admissions process. On the other hand, being a Hispanic, African-American, or Native American is often seen as an advantage, since these groups are under-represented minorities.</p>
<p>If you’re half white/other race then put that. </p>
<p>@SJRcalderone UC schools went race blind and there are a lot of asians in California so it sure seems like a lot. At top east coast schools (and stanford as well) they limit the percentage of seats for asians so it gets competitive.</p>
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<p>There are studies that show that to selective colleges, being Asian is the equivalent to a 200 point decrease on the SATs. It’s not in your best interest to put it down. </p>
<p>(I think this may be it, though I think the study was more recent:
[Asians</a> may face tougher college admission process, study finds - The Daily Princetonian](<a href=“http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/2009/10/12/24103/]Asians”>http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/2009/10/12/24103/) )</p>
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<p>There was actually a bill (SB 185) that would have allowed the UC’s and Cal States to consider race in admissions (remember the Berkeley College Republicans bake sale controversy?). Fortunately (IMO), Gov. Brown vetoed the bill in early October.</p>
<p>Wow. I’d never heard this before. Well, put me down for preferring a race-blind admissions system. A boy from my son’s HS who graduated last year was accepted (and is attending Stanford), and he is Asian. He’s also first generation American; parents were both born in Taiwan.</p>
<p>See the FAQ thread </p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-admissions/1228264-race-college-admission-faq-discussion-9-a.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-admissions/1228264-race-college-admission-faq-discussion-9-a.html</a> </p>
<p>for more details.</p>
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The point we’re making is that it’s not impossible to be Asian and go to a good college, it’s only more difficult.</p>
<p>There was a similar article about this on Yahoo: [Some</a> Asians’ college strategy: Don’t check ‘Asian’ - Yahoo! News](<a href=“http://news.yahoo.com/asians-college-strategy-dont-check-asian-174442977.html]Some”>http://news.yahoo.com/asians-college-strategy-dont-check-asian-174442977.html)</p>
<p>^Whoops I just realized that O’Connor has since retired. Still, I wouldn’t mind if she died (painfully). That freaking woman denied me a college education.</p>
<p>^ So your college education is worth more than someone else’s life?</p>
<p>Honestly, I just let the race thing stop building up inside of me. Life isn’t fair, America is going through its turmoils, there’s still bad people running around free, yet I’m the one punished for my ethnicity. Oh well. I’m still proudly to be fully-blooded Asian and I’m also proud to be the first person in my family’s history to attend an undergraduate college in America, so haters can suck on that.</p>
<p>In the meantime, go Penn/Notre Dame/Michigan/Pitt/Emory/Rutgers/Othercollege here Class of 2016!</p>
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<p>Yes. Sandra Day O’Connor, at 81 years of age, has no utility to society. I, on the other hand, a bright young 17 year old teenager, has tons of utility left for the betterment of society. </p>
<p>She should die so she can stop living off entitlements from being a former Supreme Court Justice. She should also die because she voted for injustice in the form of affirmative action.</p>
<p>In Grutter the decision she concurred with involved a weak form of affirmative action. This is a sensible position because it would be a bit silly if every [insert discriminated-against ethnicity] person who was denied admission could sue a school for discrimination.</p>
<p>Many of her decisions were a bit iffy, but I think the case for this one, at the very least, is strong enough that she doesn’t deserve the death penalty for it.</p>
<p>To curse someone to death is a very harsh thing… :-(</p>
<p>you can… but why put ‘Asian’ when you can hide it? hide that you are an Asian… I would hide it but my name is way to obvious</p>