<p>I know of a person who is Iraqi and an American citizen but doesn’t want to state it on his application next yr because hes afraid the college admissions board will look bad upon that, due to recent times. What do oyu really think he shouol do?</p>
<p>are you kidding? if his scores and activities are up to par, then it would only help him.</p>
<p>Sometimes I wish I was Ugandian. </p>
<p>Calm your friend down. This is Brown. Not the CIA.</p>
<p>I think that if he tells them that he is Iraqi, Brown is going to hand his name over to the CIA, FBI, and NSA. </p>
<p>Totally Kidding!!! lol</p>
<p>He should definitely state it on his application. College's can't discriminate against him because of his ethnicity, if anything, I'd say it would probably help. It's definitely an under-represented minority.</p>
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Who's stopping them?</p>
<p>And how could anyone prove it... it's not like a college would publicize that they rejected someone b/c of ethnicity. </p>
<p>In a perfect world, it might help. In the real world, it still might help, but emotions come into play. Say the reader is has a family member in Iraq - does that create a feeling of resentment? I unno.</p>
<p>Could go either way - help or hurt</p>
<p>I don't know why any American citizen would fear reporting their ethnicity to a college admissions officer, honestly.</p>
<p>the thing is, this person is defintely for the american side of the war, it's not as if he was for sadam hussein or anything, of course, one cant put that down on the college app</p>
<p>being an iraqi in NO WAY means he is an angry terrorist, militia man, or anything they'd want to discriminate against, keeping in mind that we are not fighting AGAINST most iraqis over there, we are fighting WITH them. it would only help, i'm sure brown wants some sort of international perspective. getting worried about that is ridiculous.</p>
<p>Sorry ya'll. It wouldn't let me edit it after I read it again.</p>
<p>I always wanted to pretend to be a different ethnicity on all my college apps. It would be fun to be a Pacific Islander for Brown, American Indian for Northwestern, and maybe an Eskimo for USC. Being a middle class white American is so boring. lol</p>
<p>what can brown do for you?</p>
<p>if you put Iraqi brown'll teach you how to wrap bombs in gifts, so I think it's smart.</p>
<p>Actually, an Iraqi-heritage American citizen would be offered tons of jobs in the federal gov't.</p>
<p>In my interview, when my interviewer asked why I wanted to go to Brown, I was like, "I always wanted to work for UPS because of the cute little brown outfits they get to wear, and I thought that going to Brown would be the ultimate training for UPS. Isn't Brown University like a vocational school where they teach you how to be a model UPS employee?" </p>
<p>He had a great sense of humor, so he thought it was really funny. He said for all the years he had be interviewing, he had waited for someone to say that. So that was pretty chill. Then I went into why I really wanted to go to Brown. lol</p>
<p>naw i think they have a special school for postage services.</p>
<p>cowtipper, my dad tried to get me to say that to my interviewer! what a small world...</p>
<p>hell yale admitted a student who was a part of the TALIBAN. I'm sure being IRAQi will prob. get you in the diversity quota (not too many Iraqis are applying anyway).</p>
<p>Ummm...my understanding is that the applicant in question is an American. Correct?</p>
<p>I think that they are now an American citizen, but moved here from Iraq. That was my take on it, but they might mean that they are of Iraqi descent.</p>
<p>I am of 100 percent irawi descent, and an american citizen</p>
<p>Although they can legally discriminate even though some people would argue its illegal, the catch is that it will be discrimination in his favor, so he'll be more likely to be admitted saying he's Iraqi. Why would he want to avoid that? Self-esteem or something?</p>
<p>Tell him to do what he's comfortable doing and support him in whatever he decides.</p>
<p>it'll prob help him, so tell him to put it on his app... not only would he be considered a URM but also a "rarity", becos let's face it, his background is pretty unique, and this is wut colleges r looking for... he would def add to the diversity of the student population</p>