<p>So...</p>
<p>Do I at least get some sort of a boost if I'm an Asian girl who loves the theater, does poorly in math, (low 600s on math SATs. Yikes.), and is more writing / reading oriented? And if my parents haven't gone to college and aren't doctors / computer engineers? And if I am very outgoing? Not shy at all. Does that make up for the fact that I'm Asian?</p>
<p>I really don't like how me being born Asian will have an effect on my college applications. :-( Does this bug anyone else?</p>
<p>what's wrong with being asian?
you know what, if your scores are low and you have really good writing skills, all you need to do is whip up a fantabulous personal statement that includes your personality in it</p>
<p>Not Asian here. (A parent, among other things. :) ) It's fabulous that you're different, fabulous for you, fabulous for a college. There's an interesting discussion going on right now on the Parents Forum (the "Ivy Success" thread). </p>
<p>For the colleges, it really is about numbers & variety (& variety within variety). For example, it becomes not as stimulating/interesting to have an entire major or specialty dominated mostly by one national, ethnic, or racial grouping. Think about it: you have seminars, your labs, your team work. It's not exposing students to a wider world of interactions if by accident (choice of academics) a large segment end up in same/similar majors. No one pounce of me, because of course I know there's ethnic variety within most majors, yes, and certainly some Asians concentrating on art, etc. But not enough. </p>
<p>The colleges (Elites, esp.) have two hurdles when it comes to building variety: variety of expressed academic interests, going in (unrelated to the ethnicities of those students), and variety of ethnicities, race, nationalities. When they encounter floods of applications from heavily science/math oriented East Asians, they are not interested in admitting all of them, even if all of them are great students. They have other applications from students of different interests & different ethnicities, that are as great as those apps.</p>
<p>Traitor to the stereotypical Asian!!
just kidding</p>
<p>I think that's great. The more the society as a whole typecasts Asian into few archetypes, the harder it is to live up to. When you break the mold you are showing everyone that Asians are diversified and are real people. Yes I wish someone will hire a bus with side panel saying "Its ok. Im asian and I suck at math. I don't need it to have a full life". Since you like the theatre,how about write a musical ? Traditional parents who want their daughter to be physicist but she likes the arts... Im sure you can put enough conflicts in there to make it poignant and interesting and liberating.</p>
<p>We're one in the same :) Bad at math, good at writing, into the arts, first gen. Go us.</p>
<p>We are very similar.
I love acting and have taken acting classes (Lee Strasberg).
I love writing screenplays!</p>
<p>But I have a higher math score than writing score (730ish to 650ish).</p>
<p>As you can see, the SAT's are not indicative of talent or expertise, since I've always thought I was better at writing than I am in math.</p>
<p>But sadly, on the applications, they can't see it. All they see is a girl who is in drama production (yes?) but didn't do so good at math. Chances are the admissions officers won't string the two together.
So the best way is to connect the two together for your admissions essay!</p>
<p>Not very likely - 1) the Asian-Americans admitted at the top schools have the highest scores (with regard to racial groups) and 2) you will be competing with Asian-Americans who are art-oriented with outgoing personalities (not that such a quality translates well during the apps process) AND also have top scores.</p>
<p>But there's always a chance (i.e. - write a killer essay).</p>