<p>No joke? Holy crap. That's awesome.</p>
<p>most of the people agree that on this thread that you have to be at least 1/16 of any race...so go for it lol</p>
<p>go down to posts 8 and 10</p>
<p>Hm. I googled, had trouble finding official sources. I'm sure there's a "rule" about it somewhere...</p>
<p>as long as your 1/16 native american you can out it down....i saw this in one other thread but dont know where</p>
<p>yea, but if you're not a member of a tribe colleges won't recognize it.</p>
<p>The question of "how much of a particular race - percentage" would be an interesting one to pose to college admissions staff for those colleges practicing racial bias.</p>
<p>If we take it down far enough, we're all African.</p>
<p>^lol true...At least i'm 1oo percent black so thats one less thing i have to deal with</p>
<p>LOL ucsd<em>ucla</em>dad...</p>
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<p>the average US black has ~20% european/native american in 'em... can't you semi-sorta-kinda tell the difference between an AFRICAN african... and a US black?</p>
<p>great comments, any other opinions? From doing my own research, it looks like a majority of colleges take race into consideration but don't necessary penalize certain races' SAT scores. However, I've heard that some colleges will take a group of qualified students and seperate them by race...then go in and pick out the best of the crop.</p>
<p>how much will being black help me getting into UVA from MAryland</p>
<p>I'm not entirely sure of this so check the college board site, but I think uva lists race as one of the more important factors. However, I think only one third of their students are OOS so that might play a more important role in admissions for you. Race will definetly give you the edge over many OOS students.</p>
<p>My friend is half Asian and half white, and he has a last name that doesn't sound remotely Asian... so he declined to tell them his race.</p>
<p>I have a suspicion that MIT rejected me because I was a stereotypical Asian who liked math and physics and played violin. Probably decided that they had too many of those on campus. Although I believe that other factors are more important, such as legacy status and being a recruited athlete. I also suspect that it doesn't help to be male when applying to MIT.</p>
<p>The reason "qualified" URMs are getting rejected is because they're not really URMs. A lot of them are black, yes, but they're from well to do families. IF you're poor and a URM, it helps a lot becuase it shows that you're willing to overcome society and struggle to get an education. Anyone who gets ****ed that someone who had a tougher life than they did but got a lower SAT score than they did and got accepted somewhere and they didn't is a 'tard. </p>
<p>Someone said they failed to see how diversifying campuses was helping society...are you joking? Seriously. By helping minorities out, it's not helping society? By pulling people from the ghetto and giving them an education some white kid would take for granted is nto helping society?
Praise the lord.</p>
<p>I've read in The Early Decision Game, at least I think that was the title, that in one study it was found that blacks had an increase in admission's chances equivalent to a 400 point raise on the SAT. While I doubt that the increase is really this high I don't think it can be denied that an URM gains an extremely significant admission's advantage.</p>
<p>u know on the SAT they have a spot for race/ethnicity, do colleges see that or do they only see the race preference u made on the actual application ?</p>
<p>^SAT questionnaire that is</p>
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Also, most of us are Iraqi -- Mesopotamia and whatnot. :rolleyes:</p>
<p>well if you think about admissions officers are trying to make a diversified class and they can't accept like 50 Asians who all have the same stats if you're Asian and complain that you weren't accepted because you were like all other Asians applying, then be different. Instead of playing the violin play the drums or instead of being the captain of the physics team be the captain of the football team.
the same goes for every other race</p>
<p>u know on the SAT questionaire they have a spot for race/ethnicity, do colleges see that or do they only see the race preference u made on the actual application ?</p>