<p>I'm Mexican-American and I was wondering if that's considered a hook or a boost in admissions at say...Northwestern or NYU or schools of that sort</p>
<p>Yes..........</p>
<p>A blatant yes, but people here tend to overestimate the boost it provides.</p>
<p>when you say here...where do you mean? and when you say overestimate, do you mean the boost is just incredibly small?...sorry for the numerous questions</p>
<p>I'm an asian-american and am also wondering if that is a boost or hook.</p>
<p>actually its a pretty big hook....ive seen hispanic kids that get into columbia or cornell with SAT of 1900's and GPA's of 3.7-3.8</p>
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I'm an asian-american and am also wondering if that is a boost or hook.
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<p>No .</p>
<p>@ trainspotted15... being Mexican-American will help your case a bit if you're applying to schools that currently enroll a low percentage of Hispanic students. I believe Northwestern and NYU are indeed two examples of these schools. At the same time, however, keep in mind that it's not going to give you a huge boost: if your profile is well below the average applicant's profile (less than the 25% quartile of admitted students, for instance), then you're still going to have a tough time getting in.</p>
<p>@shiomi... unfortunately for your case, a lot of the top schools right now have an abundance of Asian-American applicants. Thus, being Asian isn't usually viewed as a particular advantage; you'll probably be able to find people on here who claim that it's a significant disadvantage for some schools (Rice University comes to mind). That being said, Asian-Americans could get a small boost from their minority status at schools that have low percentages of Asian-American students such as Washington & Lee University in Virginia.</p>
<p>If you are an underrepresented minority at a school it can be a boost, hook , tip or nothing at all. Some schools really don't care. Some schools only care about certain ethnicities and not others, so it depends on what your background is. For instance, in an area, at a school where there are many hispanic students, the admissions office is not likely to give another hispanic app any extra consideration at all. The same with asian students. There are schools that have so few non caucasian, that anyone who has a non white background would get a boost for diversity reasons. A lot of schools want geographic diversity so you don't even have to be of a different nationality or race to get that consideration in the mix. It all depends upon the school and its pool of applicants.</p>
<p>thanks for your answers everyone.</p>
<p>"A lot of schools want geographic diversity so you don't even have to be of a different nationality or race to get that consideration in the mix."</p>
<p>--I'm from the south and, as we know, Northwestern and NYU are in the midwest and northeast, respectively. so ar eyou saying i get some sort of other boot depending on the circumstances?</p>
<p>if you are from the Midwest you might get a boost if you have less opportunity than others.</p>
<p>if you are qualified to begin with then yeah it will increase your chances but if your profile cant compete then no it wont help.</p>
<p>Both NYU and Northwestern are highly desirable schools that attract students from everywhere. They are interested in maintaining their geographic diversity. In my opinion, the geographics would be more of a tip factor rather than a real boost. It would depend, of course what the applicant pool is like for this year.</p>