Does being 1/4 Asian make my application more competitive?

[ucbalumnus]

@twoinanddone

But she IS Asian, Chinese by birth, looks Chinese she is racially Chinese. The first day at a new high school, a boy asked her how she could play lacrosse if she was Chinese. She just looked at him and asked “Are you stupid?”

Perhaps the answer is “yes”, since there are lots of people who are not northeastern Native American playing lacrosse.