<p>Yeah I’m white and I love tennis but I’m the only white player on my ten person varsity team.</p>
<p>It may be true that a lot of asians play tennis, but that doesn’t mean that tennis is a stereotypical asian sport.</p>
<p>You play tennis because you’re good at it, and it’s fun. That’s all that matters.</p>
<p>Our HS tennis team won’t be all asian because I am the ONLY HALF Asian in the whole school. So if I do tennis (which is in my plan) I’ll contribute 0.5 Asian to the tennis team. I also am a competative figure skater. :)</p>
<p>in my high school, which was in a town with about 25% asian, there very few asians on the tennis team (i was one of them) simply because very few asians did varsity sports, period. they were all doing rec sports and focusing on their studies and such. so our team was mostly white.
i feel like though a lot of asians play tennis, a lot of the top players are white. just saying. i could be wrong.</p>
<p>The math-and-science-loving and violin-and-tennis-playing Asian student is a pretty common stereotype–or possibly a cultural norm. I have to say that having looked at many chance and results threads over several years, I have seen many, many students who have these characteristics among those aiming at selective schools. There is nothing wrong with these interests, but if you have them, you do have to understand that you may be competing against a large number of people similar to yourself. It’s not that colleges don’t like these things, but rather that they like a whole variety of things.</p>
<p>Anecdote: This is a pretty common stereotype where we live. My daughter has a Chinese friend who plays violin and piano, is interested in science, sings in a Chinese choir, etc, etc. I asked her, with all those activities, how does she find time to play tennis? “I don’t play tennis,” she replied. “I play ping pong.”</p>
<p>LOL I’m an Asian, and I play both tennis and violin seriously, and I love math and science. I’m also very interested in computing. I was fine in college admissions…don’t try too hard, it becomes pretty obvious. Yes being <em>ASIAN</em> can be a disadvantage in college admissions, but at the end of the day, you’re still going to be Asian. Stop trying to compensate for that with ~unique ECs. If you love it, do it. </p>
<p>CC always perpetuates this idea that everything needs to be for college admissions–do this, don’t do that, because college admissions officers will see you as <em>insert stereotype here</em>. If you’re passionate about tennis, that’s all they’re looking for-passion.</p>
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<p>Yeah, you’ve heard from the posters who think they know something about Asians (but they don’t).</p>
<p>The vast majority of Asians in the US don’t play tennis.</p>
<p>Tennis is a fairly expensive sport to play (equipment costs, court fees, lessons) and most Asians in the US don’t have the money to spend on it.</p>
<p>Furthermore, tennis is not a big sport in Asia, so the newer Asian immigrants or those who live in Asian enclaves would generally not be playing it (the biggest sport in Asia is soccer, followed by baseball in Korea and Japan, basketball in China and cricket in the Indian subcontinent).</p>
<p>The people who make remarks about Asians playing tennis is simply due to Asians in more wealthy areas playing it; and guess what, non-Asians in wealthier areas also play a lot of tennis.</p>
<p>One can make the same claim that Asians play a lot of golf, but again, that would be no diff. than non-Asians from wealthier areas who also play a lot of golf.</p>
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<p>And that stereotype also fits Jewish students but funny how the same people constantly only attribute it to Asian students, but then again, it’s hardly surprising since it’s societally more acceptable to stereotype/make fun of Asians.</p>