<p>I also would like to apologize to the OP for calling him an “Asian robot.” It really irks me when people stereotype Asians and I’m guilty of that myself.</p>
<p>I really hate the fact that the OP is somehow penalized for having typical Asian interests. So what if it’s stereotypical? It’s his interest and it matters to him.</p>
<p>Way back in 2003, I was rejected by UCLA (if you wanna talk about baffling rejections) as an in-stater. That’s how I found this site in the first place. I posted about my essay topics on here. I wrote about my experiences growing up as an immigrant in the Midwest, having a family income of $8000, and going to a really really bad school (that has now been shut down by the district). People told me that my essays were “cliche” and stereotypically Asian. To this day, those comments bother me. I can’t help it if 50,000 other Asians did the same thing. It certainly didn’t make my life easier. The double standard that we apply to Asians in admissions is atrocious. If a black person does premed and plays college football, he gets the Rhodes Scholarship. If an Asian person does premed and is an engineer, he gets a big fat rejection for being too stereotypical. If the OP is passionate about Asian things, then he’s passionate about Asian things. He shouldn’t be penalized for it.</p>