<p>^haha so you’re name’s not patel? 
EVERY indian person I know is named patel, it’s ridiculous</p>
<p>…Asian (filipino and a little chinese), Pacific Islander, and Native American >.<
Not to mention that i’m also irish :(</p>
<p>While Asian’s do tend to have a disadvantage, I agree that there’s not a huge one. All four students who got into top-ten universities last year from my school were Chinese (Yale, Harvard, U. Chicago, and Stanford), and the other two that applied (Russian and American) got deferred. I actually thought the Russian girl’s application was the best, but obviously not.</p>
<p>Well, don’t know about you kids, but if the chances are they’re not going to see me until I’m accepted, I just say I’m white.</p>
<p>@chair2: Yes, Spanish conquest aftermath 
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<p>@tristan101: Yeah . . . but I didn’t want an advantage that I have no right to claim.</p>
<p>@ Stupefy- I think Patel and Singh seem to be the most common last names. I actually think there may be many people with my last name, as I met one person with it when I was in England, and Facebook has a couple indian people with my whole name >.<</p>
<p>But if they try and look into it, once again, my mom’s birthplace, citizenship, and maiden name (though indian, very unique spelling and specific to her originiating “village” or whatever) would totally throw them off. </p>
<p>Either way, as many have said, it doesn’t seem to have a HUGE impact on admissions.</p>
<p>I checked it. Hard not to, when you’re applying from China. :P</p>
<p>^Ha true</p>
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<p>that’s so sad</p>
<p>I checked it off.</p>
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<p>One can have his or her admission rescinded for lying about race. One is fully entitled to leave the category blank, but this liberty doesn’t extend to falsehoods.</p>
<p>^Indeed. If I were you, I’d send them a letter saying that I misread the box and ticked it. However, then your application will seem as though you put no time into it.
I guess you could just not do the interview and see if you get in, but it always seems like regional directors and admissions officers are excited about the kids they accept and enjoy meeting a few of them during the admit weekends, etc.</p>
<p>Omg! So it IS harder to get in a good college because I’m asian! I’m scared… I’m not considered intelligent for a asian… I got a B+ lol…</p>
<p>I checked and specified too xD
I’m an asian applying from Canada lol hopefully they will think it kills two birds with one stone haha</p>
<p>And about the race thing… what if you’re adopted? o_O</p>
<p>I wouldn’t check it off, and here’s why:</p>
<p>Colleges care about the hard data that they can report. If your last name is Chin and your parents were born in China, they cannot group you as Asian in their common data sets; instead, they must group you as race/ethnicity unreported as long as you do not report your ethnicity directly. The common data set is what they truly care about as this is what they report to the public and is how they try to show their diversity (and that they aren’t insanely disproportionately Asian, even though it’s rather unfortunate that this is considered an undesirable thing). Adcoms don’t want to reject you because they dislike Asians; they want to reject you because they don’t want to appear racially lopsided.</p>
<p>I’m not checking it off for different reasons: 1) I’m only half-Asian, 2) I have a European last name, and 3) I welcome the day when all of us transcend racial labellings, so I might as well start now myself.</p>
<p>I’m not going to <em>hide</em> it; I’m proud to be korean. I know colleges are alittle bent on ethnicity and how they look at their applicants but oh well… My name gives it away - first and last name. x]</p>
<p>I would state that the idea of “hiding” one’s asian ethnicity isn’t going to matter a lick. The vast majority of applicants who are denied because they just don’t stand out in the crowd of 28000+ applications. If you’re an interesting applicant, Asian or not, you’ll get noticed. </p>
<p>But the maddening thing is there’s not much you can do to increase your appeal at this point. Either you are or you aren’t. The amount of time spent worrying about if a checked box that confirms your ethnicity is going to be the sole determinant of your Yale application is rather far fetched.</p>
<p>(BTW, I’m a Chinese immigrant kid who attended an inner city HS who had scores that were about the 30th precentile of Yale admitees – yet every school I applied to accepted me: I matriculated at Yale, my first choice. But my background and leadership qualities made me stand out if I reflect at my overall file. As a matter of fact, the sheer point that I WAS Chinese who was a student leader in a majority black school district was one of the more salient features of my profile.)</p>
<p>T26E4 - Thank you for that post! Race is important, but so is context/the applicant’s background.</p>
<p>First post after over a month’s hiatus… (following a week long ban) </p>
<p>I disclosed by ethnicity when I applied to Yale.</p>