<p>okay. so i know being asian won’t help in most schools but seeing that BC is like under 10, well i think its 9 percent asian, will it help ??? lol…</p>
<p>I guess it depends on how many asians are applying in the first place.</p>
<p>ive always thought that asians had more of an edge at catholic schools than others. it probably will not really help you, but could give you a beter chance then a school who has 15% asians and gets alot more asian applicants. good luck. what do you think about hispanics getting in there?</p>
<p>i think being hispanic can help in the admissions process.. cause it usually helps everywhere else, right? obviously you need the up to par grades n stuff too tho. btw no disrespect to religions n all that, but if i put christian down, would it help? cause under religion for princetonreview/collegeboard, BC has "CONSIDERED" unlike other schools.. just a thought. [i personally am not religious but if i were to choose, my dad is christian so that would make me christian i would think]</p>
<p>im sure that if you are qualified, religion would not have any effect at all. you could put it down if you wanted but i dont think it would really make a difference. eh thats a tricky one.</p>
<p>yeah i think you're right</p>
<p>I'm in somewhat similar situations. I have a very unusual background- half Filipino, half Italian. I can never tell what that will do for me. I've taken the attitude that I'm not going to rely on my ethnicity or religious background for anything in the admissions process. It's just one more thing that makes me stand out besides my other stats. I think that's a good thing for all of us to remember not to rely on such qualities, and put a greater emphasis on other aspects of ourselves as applicants. Now, on the other hand, to use your diversity in an essay and explain how it has shaped you, I think that's a much more effective use of it.</p>
<p>Does being Asian count at BC? No. I posted the statistical data of BC AHANA population on some other thread. But here is the basic break down:</p>
<p>In 1996: Asian - 9% (total)
in 2005: Asian - 10% (An increase of 11% from base number, or 1% of total population) </p>
<p>96' Hispanic - 5% (total)
06' Hispanic - 7% (an increase of 40%, or 2% total pop.) </p>
<p>96' African-America - 5% (total)
06' African-American - 8% (an increase of 60%, or 3% total)</p>
<p>Asian population's grow is pretty much static when compares to other AHANA groups.
Now, about the religion factor, it's basically none. However, I won't deny that Catholics are the majority(VAST majority) of the BC students, but I don't believe that BC chooses Catholics on purpose, it's just that most Catholics students prefer a Catholics school. One guy chose BC over Brown because his priest believes that no good Catholics should go to Brown over BC (Now that's dedication to your faith).</p>
<p>However, there is one factor that BC does take into account: social economics background. BC was founded on the principle of helping the less fortunate, so BC does give a bit of uh, hmm...credit? for students of lower-income bracket. A good number of students who have low SAT score that were admitted to BC are poor. How do I know this? Insider information, if you don't believe me, whatever, I have no link to public information to prove this.</p>
<p>well i know there have been a lot of issues among the admissions officers about diversity and how there's NOT enough...so for anyone worried about the asian population at BC, i think they may increase their acceptance rate for us =)</p>
<p>BC does want to be more diverse, but not with its Asian students. I'm sorry to burst your bubble, but any increase in diversity would benefit Black and Hispanic long before it reaches the Asian. I believe BC is comfortable with its Asian population right now; it doesn't mean that it won't increase in the near future, but probably by a very small margin (provided if it even going increase). The data that I provided above shows that over ten years, number of Asian students increased by 1% overall.</p>