I’m half Japanese and White. am i supposed to put both?
<p>depends. often, itll say "what would you like to be considered as?" or something to that affect. in cases of mixed race, i think you would be fine saying either race. or you could write in mixed if you prefer to say mixed.</p>
<p>My kids are the same - they checked off mixed and then wrote their dominant races down.</p>
<p>I would say put both races down. While I have never heard this from an admissions office, conventional wisdom would say that being from two different cultures would show that you have learned to balance the customs and such of two radically different societies. Diversity is always a plus, I guess.</p>
<p>well, my parents are divorced. i've not seen my dad since 3. so i didn't really get exposed to japanese culture</p>
<p>LOL. actually i shouldn't be laughing b/c the same thing happened to me (half hispanic half everything else--the hispanic side ditched the family when i was 2). i'm planning on majoring in spanish in college tho and i'm def. studying abroad to some latinamerican country.</p>
<p>Don't joke, half hispanic will help some places. Unfortunately for college, half white/half Asian is a double whammy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!</p>
<p>Yes - even if you have had little exposure culturally to one of your races, the question is about ethnicity/race - not culture. So you should put down your dominant races under "mixed."</p>
<p>Crash,
what do you mean by "dominant" race?</p>
<p>Asian/Caucasian; African-American/Polynesian</p>
<p>Heh I'm another one that had this problem with the "check one only" boxes. For UIUC I put down Asian for engineering and I'm black and chinese. The other applications had the mixed option.</p>
<p>You DIDN'T PUT BLACK? That would make you a shoe in.</p>
<p>I'm White/Azn. I think Azn would hurt me on Apps.</p>
<p>Yeah, I didn't want to bring that issue into this thread
and yeah that was before I discovered CC and yeah I didn't get in.</p>