Asians as URMs?

College Search & Selection
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<p>I've heard that some schools are actually actively recruiting Asians. Can you name any such schools? I'm guessing they're going to be mostly LACs since Asians tend to cluster in engineering and the sciences.</p>

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<p>Colgate
Middlbury
Amherst</p>

<p>I doubt 90% of asians will apply to any of them. Most of them are applying to like harvard or Stanford</p>

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<p>Notre Dame
Vanderbilt
+ most LACS</p>

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<p>Notre Dame, definitely. I know that they're trying to break their white bread stereotype at least a little bit. </p>

<p>Same with Wake Forest.</p>

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<p>I think that you can just look at the race breakdown. Look for schools with low % of Asian students. </p>

<p>I do want to tell you that my neighbor put herself in a school with a low Asian population. She is Asian. She transferred at the end of her first year (and could not wait to get out of there). She came home every weekend. She was extremely unhappy. She did not make friends, and felt like people were staring at her. She felt very uncomfortable just walking into the cafeteria to eat. If her one friend was not there, she had nobody to eat with. She never had these problems in our high school, which is over 35% Asian.</p>

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<p>^ A close friend of mine who went to Notre Dame felt exactly the same thing like it. She moved out and headed back to California and eventually graduated from the U of San Francisco.</p>

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<p>I agree with nemom about considering percentages. In fact, I posted such a comparative list not too long ago.</p>

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<p>The overall undergraduate enrollment of self-identified Asians at Vanderbilt is about 7%, which is far lower than the university would like, or so I have heard. However, it should be kept in mind that Vanderbilt consists of several schools; it is my guess that the percentage of Asian students in Arts and Sciences is much higher than that, and in Peabody (Education and Human and Organizational Development) it is much lower. Also, the large medical school and hospital complex increases the diversity of the university community, taken as a whole, quite a bit.</p>

<p>I would suggest that Asian students interested in majoring in any of the arts and sciences fields, or premed (whether in A and S or BME, i.e., engineering) would find their classes, clubs and research labs to be far more racially/ethnically diverse than the 7% figure implies.</p>

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<p>Would Indian be considered Asian because I know a lot of people/things just consider Indian people as other? Makes no sense but just wondering if college's group Indian people with Asian?</p>

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<p>^^^I believe most colleges and universities include Indians, Pakistanis, etc. as Asians, not as "other". The link below refers to the effort on the part of Univ. of California to distinguish various Asian groups. I don't think this is going on anywhere else.</p>

<p>Jobs</a>, News and Views for All of Higher Education - Inside Higher Ed :: Unprecedented Detail on Asian Applicants</p>

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<p>Davidson is a great school, w/ top-notch acedemics that I hope more Asians consider. It's the top small LAC of the South.</p>

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<p>Davidson is amazing. :)</p>

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<p>woohoo! Asian-est Ivy!!</p>

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<p>I like Davidson! I'm Asian! Haha :)</p>

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I doubt 90% of asians will apply to any of them. Most of them are applying to like harvard or Stanford.

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<p>Really? Is that why so many Asian-Americans attend community college?</p>

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I do want to tell you that my neighbor put herself in a school with a low Asian population. She is Asian. She transferred at the end of her first year (and could not wait to get out of there). She came home every weekend. She was extremely unhappy. She did not make friends, and felt like people were staring at her. She felt very uncomfortable just walking into the cafeteria to eat. If her one friend was not there, she had nobody to eat with. She never had these problems in our high school, which is over 35% Asian.

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<p>Not all Asian students would feel uncomfortable in such situations. </p>

<p>The “banana”/”twinkies” would feel right at home (and in fact would probably feel uncomfortable in a place w/ more Asian faces).</p>

<p>And keep in mind – just b/c a school has a relatively low Asian student pop. – it doesn’t necessarily mean that an Asian applicant would get in w/ lower scores/grades/ECs. More likely, a qualified Asian applicant would simply have a higher chance of being accepted.</p>

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<p>By the way, the difference among various groups of Asians can be huge as far as representation goes! It's like Jews vs other whites.</p>

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<p>Sam, did you know that there are non-white Jews? I do get your point though. </p>

<p>K&S, I agree that some people would not have a problem with the situation I described. Everyone is an individual.</p>

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<p>The best thing to do is to visit (or call a center, as I did). If you feel uncomfortable, you shouldn't go. Myself, for example, being a northeasterner of Ashkenazi Jewish descent, thought he'd feel uncomfortable at Rice (owing to the, ah, red state-ness). I called the Hillel there and they were very helpful in reversing my opinion. I am now going to visit to see what's going on in Houston with my own 2 eyes.</p>

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<p>caltech has a friggin high % of asians. do they have AA ?</p>

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<p>Doubt it. Affirmative action is not usually applied to asians at schools with high asian representation, which, quite often, are science-heavy schools, at least, from what the stats seem to show.</p>