<p>"sports superstars, which is a very uncommon quality for their subgroup"
^it's cuz we're short ^_^ lol jk jk</p>
<p>"All of my AP classes have about 40 people and I count only around 2-3 white people in the class."
the funny thing is that my school has a lot of asians (really, almost 50% asian) but the ap classes are not overrun with them. i'd say in the ap classes, it's pretty evenly divided between asians and whites/others. we have smart white people here lol :) and not every asian i know is an ap student; there are actually probably more non-ap asian students than ap asians.</p>
<p>i think it's the virtue of diligence tt makes an asian 'smart'. thus, if the whites are diligent too..they can perform...i don't believe that asians and jews are a smarter bunch of people.. u can just look at university of british columbia.. alot alot of asians... but many play too much that they don't perform.</p>
<p>i dunno about jews, but i think for asians it's just a culture thing. a lot of asian students are first generation, so their parents were born and raised in asia. schools in asia are really competitive and parents push their kids to study hard and be ranked as one of the top. parents of 1st generation kids probably still have that mindset (though mine don't - i bring all the hell of ap's upon myself ><em><) so the kids do nothing but study, thus generating the asian stereotype. (oiy, i hope that all made sense -</em>_-")</p>
<p>ya... definitely competitive.. it's scary when i see my juniors studying straight after their year end exams.. GET A LIFE!</p>
<p>hey, where do half asians fit in. technically, there are only 2% biracial people in the US (which is only slightly higher than the percentage of say native americans), and wazns are definitly different from azns (or white people for that matter). do you think colleges would categorize us a white or azn???? do we get our own little group????</p>
<p>Neither white or asian is an URM.</p>
<p>Therefore, it won't really help or hurt your cahnces.</p>