<p>Will this make me seem too whitewashed to admissions officers? I'm not ashamed of my heritage, but I haven't done a lot of Asian Pride stuff.</p>
<p>In addition, I haven't (and can't really, at this point) taken Latin, which I wish I would have had taken. Will this combo hurt me?</p>
<p>imo this is actually beneficial. Most asians would major in something sciencey, whilst a humanities subject would make you stand out.</p>
<p>Also, asian pride, seriously? is this a ■■■■■ post or what? I don’t see how doing “Asian Pride” things would help your application (considering how affirmative action already works against us)</p>
<p>If you are truly interested in European Studies, then by all means indicate it on your applications.</p>
<p>European studies is an actual field? Typically, fields that study Europe are broken up by nation/language instead of studying all of Europe. Classics is additional separate field. Not having taken Latin or Greek won’t make it impossible to be admitted as a Classics student because many high schools don’t offer those courses.</p>
<p>^ General History, Asian Studies, Africana Studies, etc.encompass several nations and linguistic groups. So does European and Russian studies, at least acc.to what I found.</p>
<p>I’m not interested in Classics. I just thought that Latin would be the best language to study if you’re going for Euro Studies because it was the most prominent official language during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.</p>
<p>Maybe some universities offer European studies as a field but I think that is atypical at larger universities. For example at the University of Minnesota offers majors in African American and African Studies, American Indian studies, American Studies, Asian Languages and Literatures, Chicano-Latino studies, Classical Civilization, French and Italian studies, French studies, German studies, Greek, Hebrew, Italian studies, Jewish studies, Latin, Russian, Scandinavian languages and Finnish, Spanish and Portuguese studies, and Spanish. I was slightly exaggerating when I said that each European nation/language was a separate department but there doesn’t seem to be one unified field that studies Europe. Why there are general Asian studies or African studies majors is an interesting question but I’m unfamiliar with many schools offering a general European studies major. Latin would only be useful/needed if you were doing classics or specializing in Medieval/Renaissance history/culture. It appears some college offer an actual major in European studies but more specialized majors in parts of Europe appear to be more common.</p>
<p>Within the realm of A&S majors, what you put down is likely to be of little or no impact on admissions. It is not a commitment on your part and many students change majors once they are in college. There are relatively few situations where projected major influences decisions.</p>
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<p>That may be an overstatement. For example, all campuses in the California State University system which have campus or major impaction (which is most of them) admit students by major. Here is an example: [SJSU</a> Admission](<a href=“http://info.sjsu.edu/web-dbgen/narr/admission/rec-1012.html]SJSU”>http://info.sjsu.edu/web-dbgen/narr/admission/rec-1012.html)</p>
<p>There is no big deal about an Asian studying European history, just as there is no big deal about non-Asians studying Asian history. It won’t matter one bit. Moreover, schools know that students change their majors all the time so they aren’t losing sleep about this.</p>
<p>ucb, an overstatement for CA publics, I will be sure to add that footnote in the future ;).</p>