<p>by checking off the little box of doom that reads "Asian/Pacific Islander"
I'm just curious. (DISCLAIMER: This is not an invitation to debate about race or affirmative action!)</p>
<p>I myself did check off that box of doom. I also further checked off the box underneath that reads CHN. why? because there's so much info in the rest of my app (parents country of birth, parents college, first language, even my LAST NAME is a giveaway) that I thought it would seem like I was trying to hide my ethnicity if I didn't disclose it.</p>
<p>I checked it, too. and specified IND.
I kinda had to because my entire yale supplement was about my ethnicity, etc.
I actually have a feeling that you might be worse off if you don’t check it than if you do…</p>
<p>I didn’t check it. It was optional, so I didn’t bother even looking at the box twice. I figured they knew already, so there was no point for me to say it.</p>
<p>I checked both Asian/Pacific Islander and the specific country.</p>
<p>I have a random question that’s been bothering me all the time: what is considered your “first language”? Technically, it can be defined as both the “language you spoke first” and “the language you speak best”…</p>
<p>Didn’t they define it as the language you spoke first? Technically, English is my first language because it’s my best language… But it’s not the language I spoke first, so I didn’t put it down as my first language in the commonapp.</p>
<p>I checked Asian, but didn’t go into detail about exactly what kind of Asian I am. As for first language…I have two, so I just put down one that’s the same as my nationality.</p>
<p>doesn’t the box say only “Asian”? if you checked off the “Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander” that’d give you URM status. as for me, i did the same as stupefy did. my commonapp essay was actually about a social issue in the Asian-American community.</p>
<p>My last name is disctintly Chinese (and situation similar to Stupefy + chair2) so I stated it in the end, even though it was going to hurt me. </p>
<p>And off topic remark: BE PROUD TO BE ASIAN GUYS! Just because it’s harder to get into college because your Asian doesn’t mean you are not worth as much as everyone who gets in. Be proud of your heritage, of all that your family (recent or distant) went through to come to America, and most of all, know that if you worked hard and failed this time, you’re going to make it eventually. Law of large numbers baby.</p>
<p>Sorry, chair2’s right. It was “Asian” instead of “Asian/Pacific Islander”. It’s just that the two terms are grouped together on forms all the time so I got used to using the whole phrase.</p>
<p>it doesn’t make a difference, if you were qualified enough you would have gotten in. it’s as simple as that</p>
<p>the 2 who got in from my school were both asian. Despite that, they proved that they can bring diversity. There is more than just racial diversity</p>
<p>I checked specific ethnicity/country, and got in…
It’s not an end-all. Plenty of Asian students get admitted each year… it’s just true that we do face a tougher pool :/</p>
ASIAN INVASION BABY</p>