<p>hi, im african american, does that actually help my chances at UNC? I thought schools weren't able to make admission decisions based on race?</p>
<p>Yeah it'll certainly help with the admission decision, as long as you have decent stats to back you up. I know many minorities who had lower stats than highly qualified "non minority people" and they got into UNC over them.</p>
<p>It will help, but to be honest I don't think it should.</p>
<p>what about minority status with asians? I know that asians aren't as prevalent at UNC than at other top schools...but just wondering.</p>
<p>And what about Pacific Islander?</p>
<p>and what about Middle-Easterner's? haha.</p>
<p>just wondering...since it is well known that UNCs female/male ratio is approx 60/40, does being a male give you a similar boost as being a minority??</p>
<p>Asian minority status actually usually hurts you in college admissions.</p>
<p>Where a native american may get in with 1200, a hispanic with 1400, an african american with 1600, and a white with 1800, an asian may need a 2000 just to be competitive within this group. Its really not fair but thats just the way it is. asians have to have much higher stats than the rest of us just to get accepted.</p>
<p>I highly doubt the spread is that wide between races. Also, I'm aware that at top (top as in ivies, MIT, Stanford, CalTech...the brand name schools) universities that being Asian is rumored to hurt you. However, at schools such as Notre Dame, being Asian is alleged to help you, because the number of Asian undergrads is very small at ND. If my memory serves me correctly, UNC actually has a smaller asian percentage than ND.</p>
<p>And ChesterBoy, I don't think being male helps you in admissions...the acceptance rates for males and females were approximately the same (actually I think the male acceptance rate was slightly lower).</p>
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<p>If you look at the "facts and figures" on UNC's site, for this Fall's (2007) entering class, the Asian percentage is 7.75%. I suspect that hasn't varied much from recent past years. I don't know what the percentage is at ND, though their entire undergrad population is about half the size of UNC's, isn't it (?), so I'd be very surprised if the Asian population was smaller at UNC. </p>
<p>As far as helping you in admissions if you're male, I read somewhere that UNC's reading of the applications is gender-blind, so I agree with phonyreal98; I doubt being male makes any difference (well, in UNC admissions, anyway). ;)</p>
<p>Fall 2007 class profile:</p>
<p>Fall 2007 Enrolling Class - Demographics </p>
<p>80.4% North Carolina residents
19.6% residents of other states and countries</p>
<p>11.14% African American/Black
7.75% Asian American/Asian
5.67% Hispanic/Latino/Latina
0.90% Native American/Alaskan Native
69.47% White/Caucasian
0.10% Pacific Islander
2.62% Other
2.34% Choose not to report</p>
<p>According to collegeboard, ND's student body is about 8% asian, very close to UNC's 7.75%. Although nobody at ND's admissions has confirmed this (nor would I expect them to), most people I have talked to have said that asians do have a URM-like advantage at ND. According to UNC's common data set, race is considered in admissions, so I would not be surprised if asians got a URM-like boost in admissions at UNC.</p>
<p>And yes, the size of ND's undergrad student body is about half that of UNC's.</p>
<p>phonyreal98: Yes, you may possibly be right about the "URM-like boost in admissions" for Asians at both schools. I was only questioning your comment that you thought "UNC has a smaller Asian percentage than ND," which I suspected was incorrect.</p>
<p>oops....yeah....you're right.</p>
<p>carry on!</p>