<p>LOL on Filipino being Hispanic. We’re Filipino and my daughter can be at least 1/16th Spanish. We thought about it during the application cycle of the possibility of claiming her as Hispanic. In the end, we just couldn’t. We don’t identify as Hispanic. She’s happy of her acceptances. But it’s clear that some kids are “helped” by their URM hook/status.</p>
<p>Sorry, yes, there are those who are of mixed heritage. For those the portion that can qualify as URM, can get into a URM pool for admissions. OF course it depends upon the school and how they do this. Asians are URMs at some schools, as I mentioned in my too long post</p>
<p>As for Filipinio being Hispanic, go right on ahead, though I don’t recommend it without some association to being Hispanic before the college admissions business.If you didn’t get merit recognition when you could have as a Hispanic scholar and other such thing, if this comes up as flag, you could have a problem. I have no idea how closely schools check on these things but if caught playing games,you could find yourself in worse shape. . This kind of game playing does not garner much sympathy and alot of people get really ticked off when they catch this, including those in admissions.</p>
<p>Being mixed race doesn’t hurt you and can be an advantage and that is what my children put down. With their slavic last name - they could have checked off white.</p>
<p>I don’t think colleges are allowed to have penalties for incorrectly filling the race slot. I’m not sure if I remember this correctly, but I believe a law pertains to this.</p>
<p>If you look at Berkeley, the white percentages didn’t change much, the Asian population rose dramatically instead. I think I read that a study estimated that 4/5 seats/spots URM’s gain through affirmative action would be given to Asians in race-blind admissions,</p>
<p>I wonder how many of the legacy spots would be given to Asians if that preference were eliminated. According to an article I read today, legacies at Harvard have a 30% acceptance rate while everyone else has a 5% acceptance rate. I don’t think Berkeley considers legacy, however.</p>
<p>We would have schools much like those in Asia and other places if things were done just by the numbers with No other factors involved. No sports teams, no orchestras, bands. No legacy no development as those tend to be govt schools. None are totally free of some corruption factors but no straight out holistic curtain to get around the numbers. </p>
<p>Really? To my knowledge in India for private colleges, the way you get in is you pay a donation and essentially buy the seat for private colleges. I think they might recruit some of the really high scoring students to make the university seem better but that’s how most or many students get jnto private colleges there.</p>
<p>I’m talking the top schools like IIT. Maybe they sell seats too, but it seems to me that those who get into that school have some mighty fine scores. As a rule, the private colleges are truly that in a lot of countries. To get the best schools, best resources, it’s the public universities that are the most acclaimed. CA with their UC system is the most similar to the rest of the world as is Virginia Carolina and possibly Michigan. NY tried to copy the CA model but could not get the 3 Rs of Reputation, Ratings and name Recognition up there for the SUNYs, and have failed miserably that way. </p>
<p>I know some people here in NYC who feel the same way as you have written about certain private colleges in the US, Theanaconda. They start their donation well before their kid is in middle school and make sure it’s all done discretely with no mention made about any connection of it to their kid getting into the college, and said kid does have to be the ball park with stats. But, yes, that is done too. Big time, regular donors on board for future projects who have kids who happen to apply to the colleges so involved probably have a much higher admit rate, than the abysmal one digit accepts at some of these schools for overall student pool. </p>
<p>I’m in the US, but I’m Indian so I know a little about these private colleges in India (some of my cousins there went there cause of donations and some Indians I know here went to India (with huge donations) for medical school (it’s just 5.5 years out of high school, no undergrad) because they didn’t get into top colleges here). The IIT’s are public colleges, and entrance is based solely upon a score on an entrance examination (with quotas for backwards castes and backwards tribes (mostly just “untouchable”). State college entrance is based upon some entrance examination for most of them.</p>
<p>There clearly is a disadvantage being Asian and an advantage being an URM at (most) top schools. Anyone who says otherwise clearly doesn’t understand how the college application process works.</p>
<p>Just look at racial distribution at Cal and Caltech.</p>
<p>If your name is asian, you might as well check the box. If its ambiguous, just leave it out.</p>
<p>Calling Filipino Pacific Islanders is laughable. In that case, Japanese can be called Pacific Islanders too. And Calling Filipino Hispanic while one barely speaks Spanish and does not have the bloodline is also ridiculous.</p>
<p>For the several people in this thread who suggested those cheats, you are really lacking integrity and providing rotten advice at the same time. Note the race question is mandated and defined by US government and colleges supply the results to the government. The government allows no answer to that question. But falsification is considered cheating the government and fraud, and can haunt one’s future. It’s certainly grounds for dismissal/revocation. With the government collecting and keeping gobs of personal data, do people really want to take such a chance?</p>
<p>There is no “blood line” because hispanic is not a race. </p>
<p>If 100% caucasians can be hispanic,
<a href=“http://m.huffpost.com/us/slideshow/320838?entry_id=4089018&slide=1”>http://m.huffpost.com/us/slideshow/320838?entry_id=4089018&slide=1</a>
then Japanese Peruvians are also arguably Hispanic as they they’ve been living in Latin America since the 19th century and speak Spanish. </p>
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