<p>For the Northeast LACs that are pretty WASPy like Williams, Middlebury, Haverford and Bowdoin, are Asians at a disadvantage like they are at HYPS? Or would Asians be on the same playing field as whites (more or less)? </p>
<p>I'm not talking about schools like Amherst and Swarthmore, but the more white-ish ones.</p>
<p>32 ACT and 3 SAT IIs over 780; just trying to find out if this is in the ballpark for an Asian applying to selective LACs. </p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>why are asians at a disadvantage in HYPMS?</p>
<p>It’s in the ballpark. Check the percentage of Asians in each school’s common data set. If it’s under 10%, you have an advantage.</p>
<p>@akashdip, this explains life:</p>
<p>However, in researching their 2009 book No Longer Separate, Not Yet Equal, Princeton sociologist Thomas Espenshade and researcher Alexandria Walton Radford examined data on students applying to college in 1997 and found what looks like different standards for different racial groups. They calculated that Asian-Americans needed nearly perfect SAT scores of 1550 to have the same chance of being accepted at a top private university as whites who scored 1410 and African-Americans who got 1100. Whites were three times, Hispanics six times, and blacks more than 15 times as likely to be accepted at a US university as Asian-Americans.</p>
<p>This was in the Boston Globe several years ago. Just Google that, and I’m sure you’ll be able to find a link.</p>
<p>oh im sorry to hear that. im an asian too as you might have guessed.</p>
<p>at LACs (other than AWS) Asians are NOT disadvanteged.</p>
<p>i believe LACs want to have more Asians.</p>