Fastest-Growing Ethnic Category at Great Colleges: "Race Unknown"

<p>Stats:</p>

<p>GPA after 9th, 10th, 11th grade:</p>

<p>Weighted GPA: 3.667
Unweighted GPA: 3.62</p>

<p>SAT: 1860 (May 3rd, 2008)</p>

<p>CR: 580/Math: 650/Writing: 630
-- I'm planning on taking the SAT again</p>

<p>ACT: 31 (June 14, 2008)</p>

<p>English: 34 Math: 33 Reading: 31 Science: 27</p>

<p>-ECs: Latin/History/Science honor society member
--Planning on doing volunteer work over the summer</p>

<p>-AP classes: US History, Comp Sci A (junior year)
Taking AP Physics B, Gov, Comp Sci AB, Chem in senior year.</p>

<p>Colleges I'm applying to:</p>

<p>Arizona State U
U of Arizona
U of Connecticut
U of Delaware
George Mason U (in-state)
U of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign
U of Maryland - College Park -- 1st choice
Ohio State
Penn State
Purdue
Texas A&M
U of Texas - Austin
Virginia Tech (in-state)</p>

<p>Well, if you have an Asian sounding name, it won't really matter if you mark unknown. Your choice though..... BTW, this thread will probably be merged with the "fastest growing ethnic group" thread.</p>

<p>No, just put your race down.</p>

<p>Seriously, just put your race down; by god, it's not like it's a significant detriment...</p>

<p>don't try to hide your ethnicity.</p>

<p>try to get your weighted GPA up man. And get a 2000+ on the SAT. </p>

<p>sry if I sound too assertive, just being encouraging. :)</p>

<p>Btw, my school doesn't give +0.2 for honors classes... Or is every high school like that?</p>

<p>Same with my school.</p>

<p>heyy, i'm turkish...could this b considered 'other' (this is like the 3rd thread i'm asking this on but i'm just really curious. lol)</p>

<p>i heard turks are considered white jsut like iranians are. sorry that germany beat you guys.. haha</p>

<p>iranians are considered white??? Shouldn't they be considered asians since Iran is in Asia?...</p>

<p>If your name isn't Asian, I would go with "I prefer not to answer." Just my opinion.</p>

<p>Another suggestion: Don't send out that SAT score unless someone has to get it when they get your SAT II scores. Your ACT score is better and colleges will accept either the SAT or the ACT.</p>

<p>p.s. Stone_cutter, those native to Iran and Turkey are considered white. Those native to Egypt are considered white, too, for that matter - in case you think at an Egyptian who lives in America is African American because Egypt is in Africa. :) </p>

<p>The U.S. Census Bureau considers race to be one of these five categories:
- American Indian and Alaska Native
- Asian
- Black or African American
- Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander
- White</p>

<p>Asia is a fictitious boundary that people made up. really, it classifies more as the middle east, because that is a cultural region.</p>

<p>race is not real. everyone is the same species... hopefully</p>

<p>Would all North Africans be considered white? I remember my friend of Algerian descent wondering about that...</p>

<p>indians (india not oklahoma) are considered caucasian.</p>

<p>yes all north africans are considered white</p>

<p>That is so strange...</p>

<p>You can decline to mention any ethnicity if you like, but the expected federal category for Turkish would be "white."</p>

<p>That's funny, because the Turks are closely allied peoples of the Mongols; this was apparent during the era of the Khanate of the Golden Horde, etc.</p>

<p>Congress needs to take AP World History -_-.</p>

<p>I was just discussing this case (and related cases) with a polyglot federal official the other day. Sometimes language affinities don't match genetic affinities very well at all. As the Census Bureau says, there isn't any science behind any of these classifications anyway.</p>

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Asia is a fictitious boundary that people made up.

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Just wanted to point out that so is every other country.</p>

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indians (india not oklahoma) are considered caucasian.

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Indians (from India) are considered Asian--or Southeast Asian.</p>

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yes all north africans are considered white

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It depends. If you look Arab/Middle Eastern, mark Caucasian. If you are black, go with Black/African American.</p>

<p>OP:
Marking or not marking your race will not affect anything.</p>