<p>ooh. that’s awkward.
my bad.
For some reason, I assumed that some UCs were overwhelmingly dominate by Asians.</p>
<p>I don’t think asians are as disadvantaged as whites in the admissions process at most schools. At most state schools/non top tier private schools, it’s an advantage to be an Asian. Maybe at Ivies and other prestigious schools they are disadvantaged, but again, it more matters where you are from. Geographical diversity is almost as important to colleges(especially private ones) as racial diversity. If your from California or New Jersey it will be harder, but if you’re from Kansas, Alabama, or Idaho you will have a huge advantage.</p>
<p>So if I’m Asian but live in Oklahoma do the two cancel out :P</p>
<p>"the true minority losing preference to the glut of blacks, hispanics, etc. "</p>
<p>Can I just savor this? The “glut” ( To flood (a market) with an excess of goods so that supply exceeds demand.) of blacks in higher education? Just for tonight? Nobody post any actual numbers…just for tonight…</p>
<p>Jews seem to dominate elite college landscapes.</p>
<p>The truly disadvantaged are the “invisible” white minorities. Italian-Americans(18% of US population) are virtually nonexistent on Ivy campuses(blacks have much better representation). Evangelicals and most of the Christian Right are also virtually nonexistent. The whites at Ivies are split between the Jews and the traditional WASP elite. Ethnic whites get screwed harder than anyone. Asians do fine.</p>
<p>It does come down to ECs. An Asian who has shown immense passion for drama has a gargantuan lead over an Asian who qualified for AMC for the zillionth time.</p>
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<p>This. If you look around on CC, the overwhelming majority of Asians/Indians have very similar chance threads, filled with USAMO/USABO/AMC/research and publications/more science stuff/more math stuff/probably something having to do with engineering or medicine. To college adcoms, that makes for one big pile of similar applications, so that’s where the disadvantage comes into play, because these schools want diversity. Unfortunately, by teaching their kids that these sorts of things are what colleges are looking for, some parents (and that goes for a number of non-Asians and -Indians as well!) are actually hurting their children’s chances of acceptance at these top universities in many cases.</p>
<p>So I’m Asian but Indian (my last name is obviously Indian but only to other Indians). Would it behoove me to leave that section blank on app and join minority council in school? Maybe they’d assume I’m black? Please advise me on this!</p>
<p>^ HAHAHA do it and see what happens :D</p>
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<p>Source?</p>
<p>Does not seem believable that Israel would have 4 million PhD holders out of a 7.4 million population (5.6 million Jewish, 4 million of them age 15 and older). Israel’s PhD granting universities have only 200,000 students total, including bachelor’s and master’s degree students.</p>
<p>Being Asian is an advantage ONLY IF the asian does non-asian activities. Otherwise, it’s a clear disadvantage.</p>
<p>@dblazer
What are some ‘non-asian activities’?</p>
<p>^^^ But don’t Jews only make up >5% of the population?</p>
<p>You’re compared with other Asians. Take that as you will.</p>
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They most likely wouldn’t automatically assume you’re black :rolleyes:.
Feel free to join though? More power to you.</p>
<p>@ivybound1 a passion outside of piano/violin or math/science. Theater or dance, for example, would be pretty atypical for an asian.</p>
<p>Non-asian activities: athletics, film, acting, voice, dance, art, business leadership, speech and debate. Go for it.</p>
<p>@beawinner business leadership and speech/debate are actually fairly typical for Asians. The rest (except dance to a bit of a lesser extent-- I know a good number of Asian dancers) do seem non-typical of Asians and would probably reflect well on the applicant.</p>
<p>Would any of you consider breakdancing to be atypical for Asians?</p>