<p>I am multiracial, half caucasion and half asian. Does this help or hurt my chances in the college admissions process? Or is it a non-issue?</p>
<p>Non issue unless you plan on attending a school that otherwise cannot attract asian students. Good luck to you in your college search/app process</p>
<p>Generally it seems the being white or asian won't help you in admissions, and won't hurt you either. Where colleges are looking for ethnic diversity they are specifically looking for <em>under-represented</em> minorities (URM). Asians are an ethnic minority in the US, but not one that is under-represented on most college campuses.</p>
<p>Being Asian actually increases your chances of admission. Percentage-wise, Asians have the highest rate of admission of any race in America.</p>
<p>But that's not because of the URM tag.</p>
<p>yeh. That's because we are over-achievers. A very good thing except it raises the bar for all asians applying to colleges since good test scores and GPAs become the norm instead of the exceptional. But if you have other hooks, I don't see how being asian will hurt your chances. To get URM advantage, you need to be hispanic, african-americain, native american, and etc. That's not always true, but it's near the general consensus.</p>
<p>Bar: causation flaw in your argument here. The achievement of Asians is statistically higher as a group. However, this doesn't mean that a 3.8GPA 2000SAT Asian will get in OVER a 3.9GPA 2100 Caucasian or would otherwise get some sort of "boost".</p>
<p>Also, Southeast Asians are considered URMs at most colleges--that is less true of California public schools.</p>
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This is bad logic.</p>
<p>Just because Asians, as a whole, have the most success in college admissions does not mean that being Asian would confer an advantage.</p>
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it also doesn't matter for California public schools since they are legally forbidden to use race as a factor</p>
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<p>Uhh - no.</p>
<p>At the elite universities, Asian-Ams have the LOWEST admit rate (and in comparison to Jews or immigrants from Africa - a substantially lower admit rate).</p>
<p>According to current statistics, if you are Asian your chances of being admitted are higher than the chances of any other race in America.</p>
<p>Correlation does not imply causation. Just because Asians, as a whole, are the most successful at getting into colleges does not mean that Asians receive benefits in admissions. Plus at elite colleges, the Asian admission rate is the lowest of any racial group.</p>
<p>I did not say that being Asian conferred "benefits in admissions," and OP did not ask that question. He asked if being Asian helped his chances in the admissions process. The answer is "yes." By virtue of being Asian, the chances that you will attend college are higher than the chances of any other race in America.</p>
<p>You should probably watch your wording then. I'm not the only who somehow misinterpreted what you said.</p>
<p>yeh lol. Being asian gives very little perks if any. Being first-generation gives some sway because it puts your achievements in context.</p>
<p>Statistics aside, if you could emphasize your biracial identity, how it differentiates you, how it's influenced your perspective, how you've dealt with it, etc, then it can most definitely help you.</p>
<p>Very interesting argument from Bay. Since Asians have the highest rate of admission of any race in America, being Asian helps in the admissions process.</p>
<p>Hmm, why is it that Asians are the ones typecast as boring math grinds? Why is it that Asians must disprove stereotypes in the admissions process while students from under-represented do not have to disprove anything and in fact receive preferential treatment for being members of their races? Why is it that being Asian is worth the equivalent of a fifty point deduction in the SAT score?</p>
<p>I mean, since when did an artificially lowered score count as an increased chance?</p>
<p>When Asians are under-represented at a university, they may get the same preferential treatment you so abhor.</p>
<p>The truth stands: If you are Asian, your chances of admission to a university are higher than any other race in America.</p>
<p>Bay, I'm sure you know very well that the OP was likely not interested about his chances of getting into just any arbitrary school in the country. In general it seems posters on CC have somewhat higher aspirations. </p>
<p>I'm sure you are also aware that being Asian confers no admissions benefit into most of the top X universities that are the focus of this forum, and presumably the focus of the OP's question. </p>
<p>That said, I find it hard to understand why you would post what is, frankly, a deceptive and unhelpful response to the OP just to keep pushing your agenda, when nobody on this thread before you had tried to inject AA into the discussion. </p>
<p>(OP, if I'm making false assumptions here, feel free to correct me. Apologies if this is the case.)</p>
<p>"The truth stands: If you are Asian, your chances of admission to a university are higher than any other race in America."</p>
<p>If this is true, it is because Asians, on average, have better statistics than the average of other groups. What people really want to know, of course, is whether they do better in admissions if you CORRECT for statistics. The conventional wisdom is that Asians actually do somewhat worse than whites when you correct for stats. Clearly, URMs do much better than whites or Asians when you correct for stats.</p>