<p>How badly does being ORM HURT your admission chances? I've been reading a lot of varied opinions about this on CC, which vary from "It sucks to be Asian" to "It's not that bad".</p>
<p>"It sucks to be Asian"</p>
<p>"It sucks to be Asian" o.o. Look at the Stanford ED thread.</p>
<p>One of my friends had a 1600 M+CR on the SAT (2290 overall with a 690 writing, which doesn't really matter anyway), a 36 on the ACT, a 3.9+ UW GPA (somewhere around a 3.95-ish), great ECs, great essays, etc., and she was deferred from UPenn ED</p>
<p>she is asian</p>
<p>"It sucks to be Asian."</p>
<p>Peytoncline, I highly doubt she had "great essays" if she was deferred with those scores and that GPA.</p>
<p>One man's treasure is another man's trash.</p>
<p>She also may have come off as vapid/uninspiring/racist in her interview.</p>
<p>Merely suggestions.</p>
<p>Lol racist. Well, forgetting to take the white hood off certainly didn't help...and pictures of burning crosses was a pretty dumb idea for an art supplement.</p>
<p>But in all seriousness, I don't think that being Asian hurts any more than being caucasian does.</p>
<p>...it's not an advantage.</p>
<p>Archer- I disagree, I think being Asian does hurt more. But idk, that's just my opinion.</p>
<p>I would say being Asian and being white are equally "bad".</p>
<p>^yes, they are equally as competitive and a bunch apply to these top colleges....so, its gonna be HARD, VERY VERY HARD.</p>
<p>how about being scottish?</p>
<p>^Probably no effect lol idk</p>