Ethnicity in Applications

Colleges and Universities A-Z Yale University
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<p>Hi! I'm a rising sophomore in high school, and my dream college has been Yale since the fifth grade (ever since I read a biography about Maya Lin, an architect). But that's beside the point. This question doesn't really restrict itself to just Yale--it's really for any ivy league, or for that matter, any undergraduate college.</p>

<p>I've heard from a few places that colleges like to keep a certain ethnic percentage when they're accepting applicants. For example, Yale might want to have a certain percentage of Asian students, a certain percentage of Caucasian students, etc. It might make sense for me to tell you that I'm Asian.</p>

<p>Does that mean that technically, I'll be competing with the other Asians applying to Yale (in the future)? There's plenty of Asian students out there who have near perfect SAT/ACT scores and have gotten awards from prestigious academic competitions. I was just wondering/worrying.</p>

<p>And I'm sorry if there's already a post/thread about this topic (if so, could you include a link to it? Thanks).</p>

<p>Thanks in advance.</p>

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<p>800 posts so far and this is the 10th iteration of an ongoing thread:</p>

<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-admissions/1366406-race-college-admission-faq-discussion-10-a.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-admissions/1366406-race-college-admission-faq-discussion-10-a.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>BTW, Asian is a race; the only ethnicity of interest for college admissions is Hispanic and Hispanics can be of any race(s).</p>

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<p>Thanks! Sorry about that. I’m new here, so I’m a little oblivious.</p>