<p>I was wondering if for the applications where it asks for "ethnicity", are there some ethnicities that are more unique than others in the admissions process. Like if you're a great student with great stats and you're Serbian or Kenyan or something, isn't that seen as really unique (seeing as how there prob. aren't too many students of these ethnicities at that school) ? Or basically, is ethnicity just lumped together like "israeli, polish" OK you're white. "japanese, thai" OK you're asian. Is ethnicity even important , or do they mainly just pay attention to race ? (like "o you're korean?" OK asian !)</p>
<p>They don't really care about uniqueness-they care about being able to say their student body has equally proportioned skin color to the US population-regardless of actual ethnicity</p>
<p>they just care about race for the most part</p>
<p>The UC and CalState schools don't use race for admissions so for them, it doesn't matter. For many other schools though, it does.</p>
<p>yeah its true...under the facade of promoting diversity, schools just want to look good by being able to say they have a proportional amount of students. </p>
<p>for example, go to every ivy league website once in a while...good luck finding a time when at least 3-4 of them dont have a picture of a minority* on their home page.</p>
<p>*Minority means color not ethnicity in this case :)</p>
<p>You are all forgetting about Hispanics. Hispanic referrs to ethnicity, not race. And, within Hispanic, Mexican-American and Puerto Rican applicants are preferred.</p>