<p>OK, on to the asian thing: don’t worry about it. People look for diversity, and you’re asian, true, but you bring in a lot of things that other kids, especially other asians, typcially don’t. One of my friends is now at Stanford: Asian, high (but not highest) in her class, but with no leadership positions in extracurriculars, or even very many extracurriculars (she worked throughout high school, though), and test scores I’m pretty sure were in the low-2000s. She’s incredibly intelligent, though, having self-studied for some AP tests, and in her essays and whatnot she showed that she could fill a gap that Stanford had. Seriously, they may pull up the test-scores of some URMs, athletes and legacies, but schools don’t really reverse-discriminate, other than using some of their acceptances tomake their school more diverse.</p>