<p>I am jewish, applying to schools that arent known as Jewish schools. Will being Jewish hurt or help me get in?</p>
<p>Neither. Being Jewish is generally not a factor considered one way or the other.</p>
<p>At Vanderbilt, it would help. If you Google, you even can find an article about how Vandy has been trying to attract more Jewish students.</p>
<p>Typically, when religion is a tip factor, the student also has to show some evidence that they have been active in their religion. Just belonging to some unusual religion isn't enough. The colleges want people who are so committed to their spiritual practice that their presence on the campus will inform others about that religion (thus helping the colleges with their mission of having students learn in a diverse environment).</p>
<p>Cool, are there any other schools that do that?</p>
<p>does being muslim help you get into vanderbilt?</p>
<p>mredsox89 it's not gonna help for Wake Forrest. Why anyway would you want to be at a school that only has about 80 Jews anyway?</p>
<p>Is there even a place to put down your religion of college apps? Typically putting down Asian hurts you, I don't know if having a Muslim or Jewish name would help.</p>
<p>Jews = ORMs at most top universities...</p>
<p>Does being muslim help?</p>
<p>What about if you a Buddhist lol.</p>
<p>Buddhist...I doubt it</p>
<p>jewish isn't a minority religion in college; there's a higher % in college than the overall population most likely</p>
<p>I know, but we're overrepresented, bobbo07. Jews are 2% of the American population, but at most top universities represent between 10%-20% of the overall college population. Muslims are not overrepresented minorities in most American universities.</p>
<p>I don't know much about religion (so yes I might appear as an ignorant prick), but out of curiosity, would being Islamic hurt or help you right now? I'm betting there will be some conservative hawk adcoms who reads an app and recoils in fear.</p>
<p>melli: I may be wrong, but I don't think there are many conservative hawk adcoms in universities! I would be much more concerned about leftist adcoms recoiling in fear over apps from Christian students.</p>
<p>Does putting down "asian" really hurt the application?</p>
<p>No, it doesn't. That myth is just an extrapolation of data that seems to indicate that affirmitive action hurts asians more than any other ethnicity.</p>
<p>Lubinli, they're gonna know if you're asian from your last name. so even if you don't put it down, there's still a good chance they'll consider you asian.</p>
<p>a lot of asian people have names that aren't stereotypical asian names... especially filipinos, a lot of them have names that sound more like a hispanic name</p>
<p>a filipino friend of mine has the last name Carlos and if he didn't check anything the adcoms would probably think he was hispanic lol</p>
<p>Filipinos are the Hispanics of the Orient.</p>