<p>I don't really want to turn this into an affirmative action debate, but I'm of Indian origin, so I think think it's assumed that I'm at a disadvantage in the college admissions process, or at least, I'm not given the advantage that is usually given to other minorities, which I'm mostly okay with. But whenever I talk about college admissions and affirmative action with people from my school, everyone always assumes that I have a disadvantage even though I'm a "minority" (or sometimes an "immigrant," which I'm not, but...) and I have to explain why Indians/Asians are actually overrepresented in the process, and if anything, we have a disadvantage. But even after going through all this, a lot of people still don't believe me, including ironically, other Asians. Maybe this is because there aren't really a lot of Asians that go to my school, but if you look closely at college acceptances to top colleges at my school in the past couple of years, everything definitely supports the idea of affirmative action, so I dunno.</p>
<p>hahah yeah, you are right about being at a total diadvantage as an indian (assuming you're the south asian type). </p>
<p>also, affirmative action really just gives the advantage to students who are not white or asian, so if you mean to say kids who get accepted to top colleges at your school are in the minority category of Asian, then that has nothing to do with affirmative action. underrepresented minors (URM) are given a higher likelihood of acceptance over the white/asian student with the otherwise same (or better) stats. </p>
<p>it does sometimes **** me off to think that someone who is less qualified may take away my acceptance to my dream college, but at the same time i guess that person probably just didn't have the same opportunities that i did given their educational background, which often correlates with their ethnicity. they could actually possibly take greater advantage of the resources offerred at the college; that is for the adcom to decide.</p>
<p>besides, it probably does the world a greater good to increase diversity in higher education institutions in the long run..</p>
<p>i heard 80% of URMs at ivy leagues are chosen by affirmative action... does anyone have anything to back this up?</p>
<p>i'm asian (not indian) so i cant say that i've ever had an issue with people thinking i'd actually have an advantage for being a minor, but sounds like it would happen</p>
<p>try asking this question on the stanford board (its' filled with self righteous *********)</p>
<p>but i totally feel you man</p>
<p>I'd probably be qualified mainly under the "ORM" area, so yeah...</p>
<p>The degree that AA is used in some schools/cases is a bit too much, perhaps, but I still understand the overall mission and etc.</p>
<p>And let's not get to the whole "more qualified/less qualified" bs again..</p>
<p>Its probably because many asians including Indians are known for matriculating at top tier schools by your classmates. so it might seem to them that every asian that goes to a good school, only got there through aa.</p>
<p>Sorry, what I meant was that in the past couple of years, the only people that went to “top” colleges were African American, but the Asians that seemed similar went to worse colleges, but still really good overall. So, even just looking at college acceptances from my school shows that Asians don’t really get an advantage, but people still believe that.</p>
<p>I thought it was proven that Asians have a DISadvantage.</p>
<p>yeah i dunno how being asian is an advantage at all.</p>