Do most universities regard Filipinos and Filipino-Americans as over-represented or under-represented? If they are grouped with Asians in general then we suffer coz Asians are over-represented and when you carefully look at the figures within the Asian group you have Chinese, Korean, Indian as the main bulk. Then other minorities like Filipinos, and I guess also Vietnamese, Cambodians, Indonesians and so on which have lower admission rates than them will definitely lose out, won’t they? So should these other sub-ethnic minorities be regarded in a slightly different light from other Asians???
<p>The UC's seem to consider Filipino-Americans to be their own group, separate from all other Asians, I guess because there are so many in California. With the ever-increasing influx of Filipinos to the US, they may be considered overrepresented in some areas of the country (CA, NY) and underrepresented in others. I was the only Filipino (not to mention the only non-white) in my parochial school in MA in the late 50s/early 60s as well as in my high school. Even in college, I was one of two or three.</p>
<p>At colleges and universities now, there may be few international students from the Philippines but probably more Filipino-Americans. Many schools have Filipino Clubs.</p>
<p>It depends; they ask you to write the country you're from because each Asian group is considered differently. On the East Coast, being Filipino is more likely to help you than hinder you. I chalk this up to the fact that Filipinos sometimes look like Mexicans, and you know it's all about creating that diverse-brochure group. :) For the NASA SHARP program, Filipinos are considered as one of the minorities underrepresented in certian fields of science(obviously, these fields of science don't include nursing. :)). Basically, I'd say it varies from school to school. Filipinos are probably URM at most liberal arts colleges, neutral at the Ivies, ORM on the West Coast...</p>
<p>They're definitely not underrepresented at UC Irvine...the biggest student club on campus by far is the Filipino club.</p>
<p>are filipino-americans and filipinos considered to fall under one group? because i think its unfair heh. there may be a lot of fil-americans applying for US colleges/universities, but there's a small percentage of filipinos who come from the philippines applying to such schools.</p>