Reading some posts on college confidential, I ran into a couple that said that many colleges consider Asians URMS…how true is this statement? Can anyone tell me any relatively prestigious schools, in which Asians are considered URM or as I’ve read in some articles…“more appreciated.”
<p>I know Princeton is one of these schools.</p>
<p>No ivy considers Asians URMs. The best shools that might would be LACs in the South and MW, basically places that don't get many Asian applicants.</p>
<p>Wats Urm Stand For?</p>
<p>under represented minority</p>
<p>Contrary to popular belief, to be considered an under represented minority you do not have to Black, Hispanic, or Native American. An under represented minority is anyone that does not fit the profile of majority of the student body geographically, socially, economically, racially, and/or ethnically. At nearly all elite schools the student body consists of those who are white, middle to upper class, and have parents that are college educated</p>
<p>This might be a dumb question..but I'm not yet college confidential savvy..what are schools that are LACs.</p>
<p>LACs = Liberal Arts Colleges. These schools are generally smaller than "universities", have more faculty:student interaction and focus more on the humanites and social sciences (and sometimes hard sciences, but rarely engineering). Some of the top LAC's are in this</a> list</p>
<p>I heard Duke was one of these were Asians are more appreciated..is that at all true?</p>
<p>I don't have a book with me right now, but Duke could very well be one since it is in the South. For any college, look it up in the Princeton Review Top 357 Colleges guide or the Fiske guide, and see what percent of the student body is asian. </p>
<p>The other side to this is that asians are sometimes considered an OVER-represented minority. In theory, marking the white/asian race box should not help you or hurt you. Of course, the fact that some people are marking black/hispanic hurts you in your attempt to get one of the finite slots, but being asian/white isn't supposed to be held against you. However, some colleges such as the UC are heavily populated with asians. If your last name doesn't give it away, I would recommend that you not mark the race box at all, and then you will fall into the white category instead of the asian category.</p>
<p>well i'm half white half asian anyways..wut about pacific islander..i'm filipino</p>
<p>I can't give a definititive answer about diversity within asians. There have been other threads about Vietnamese versus Korean, and so on. Maybe some colleges make the distinction, but I personally feel that the whole process is driven by politics instead of logic. The politicians for certain groups want to see a head count of how many of their type of minority got in. Hispanic leaders don't care about whether the hispanics are from Central America, South America, or Spain.</p>
<p>It is one thing to say that we are giving an advantage to blacks and hispanics because they are statistically disadvantaged, but it is another thing to say that we are disadvantaging asians because they are too smart. Nobody is ever going to say that of course, but in places like the UC schools, I can not imagine that it isn't happening.</p>
<p>Someone said in a thread yesterday that asian applicants need to work on being unique through their EC's. Everyone needs that, but the poster's point was that asians, in particular, don't do it enough.</p>
<p>Hmm...Since you're half-Filipino (I'm full), by any chance do you have a Latino last name? Because then maybe you could...</p>
<p>Kidding. Though my little brother could definitely get away with it.</p>
<p>I was wondering if Arabs are considered minorities! Especially Iraqis (after the war stuff)</p>
<p>probably so, your interesting background might give you a boost on college applications</p>
<p>Arabs are considered White</p>
<p>North African, Middle Eastern and European are white</p>
<p>Pakistan and East.....Asian</p>
<p>yeah last I checked Iraqi isn't a race...</p>
<p>somebodynew: lol, scandalous</p>
<p>I am also half pac-i(indonesian); can we get a definitive answer on half-minorities?</p>
<p>i believe as long as your 1/4th hispanic..or black..you can be counted as minority</p>
<p>Um, I'm think it's all about the box you check off, and don't all of your important documents already have your ethnicity listed?</p>