<p>New to this board. I have a son sophmore at competitive public high school. He is half jewish and half chinese. I know he will not qualify as a minority. Is he "other", or amerasian, or what? Thanks!</p>
<p>Being Jewish isn't a race, it is a religion, so that won't make a difference. You can list "other" or "amerasian" if that category is an option on the application.
PS- welcome to the board :)</p>
<p>Check the specific form you need to fill out each time you have a form to fill out. I just asked my son how he wanted to fill out a scholarship application form, and he decided--this time--to check a box of "Multi-racial (Specify)" and then specify, using categories from other lines on the form, "Asian American-Caucasian." My own preference is not to fill out questions like that. Ethnic self-identification questions are OPTIONAL on the Common Application and on most college and scholarship applications, so you needn't answer at all if that is inconvenient to you. </p>
<p>Harvard University reports, in its Fact</a> Book, that about 9 percent of its undergraduate students and about 11 percent of all students at all levels had "other/unknown" ethnicity--which probably means that most of those students didn't self-report any ethnic designation, or reported a mixed designation. The growing trend today is for more and more college applicants to treat the optional questions about ethnicity as just that, OPTIONAL, and not fill them out. </p>
<p>Best wishes in deciding what to do. Are you the Chinese parent? "Si hai zhi nei, jie xiong di ye," shi bu shi?</p>
<p>OOps, half caucasian and half chinese. Thanks!!</p>
<p>I found it interesting to note that on the ACT website, the chart that shows National Average Composite Score by Race/Ethnic Group 2004, identifies the group with the highest average composite score as "prefer not to respond."</p>
<p>token adult... it's hard to get chinese from english... all i recognized was the is that right at the end* and i speak mandarin fluently</p>
<p>He will certainly qualify for URM status at certain schools. I don't want to discuss private info about other students, but I know of some with your background. Don't email, that is an old address, but you can use this site's Private Messages if you like.</p>
<p>My preference is to fill out questions like this; I think demographic information is very important to gather. (But in our case we are just not going to benefit, I just think some should.)</p>