<p>Thanks, junie. I know how time consuming it is to put together one of those!</p>
<p>True, Stanford is hard to get into. But the point is- the difficulty varies from race to race.</p>
<p>Based on a quick study, it seems that there is less correlation between scores and acceptances at Stanford than at Yale. I can’t easily draw any conclusions about thresholds for being accepted early at Stanford as I did for Yale.</p>
<p>Arab Americans are underrepresented at the major schools.
I know 2 students in Harvard who say that Muslims in general and Arabs are specifically underrepresented.
I know 2 students at Stanford and they said the same thing.
Schools like Northwestern and others in the Chicago area have good Arab populations.</p>
<p>silverturtle - np</p>
<p>“Middle Eastern” means arabs and all that. I didn’t know colleges considered Middle Easterners as Caucasians, i mean im not one so -_-… Sorry for the confusion.</p>
<p>“And thus we conclude that Stanford hates Asians and loves URMs <em>sigh</em>”</p>
<p>Hard to draw meaningful conclusions when an N = 3.</p>
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<p>Great job, but I would just like to take this opportunity to point out that Asian Indians are ** not ** classified as Middle Eastern, but are classified as Asian. Furthermore, I’m sure at least 20% of the students in the ** Asian ** category were, in fact, Asian Indian.</p>
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<p>Correct. It’s important to read the FAQ posts at the beginning of this thread and the links they contain.</p>
<p>Thank you all for the Middle-Eastern clear-up…</p>
<p>A new thread will be coming soon as more colleges post their current application forms.</p>
<p>So um…no one has answered the previous question: How can an Asian-American strong in math/science (prez of math club, robotics, science competitions, college classes, rank 1, high test scores, AMC 12, AIME, etc.) distinguish himself/herself from others who have similar stats? For example, I am low-income and I also do cross-country, track, and ASB. How can I use this to my advantage? Write passionately about it in my essays? Is there anything that I’ve overlooked? Thanks.</p>
<p>If you are low income, you can do QuestBridge.</p>
<p>Other than that, I have no idea. I pretty much saw Admissions Officers systematically screw the Asian race at my school this year. <___<</p>
<p>Yea I am doing Questbridge lol.
Same, our Rank 1 (asian) got rejected by all. Going to Berkeley.
Another top ranked asian (who did Questbridge!) got rejected and is going to Pomona.
And a bunch more asians are going to Berkeley.</p>
<p>“Well, if you are not the stereotypical Asian, then what are your interests?”
- Tomjones</p>
<p>Let’s see, how about tons of theatre (costume designer, children’s community theatre tech work), art (national, regional, local awards), cooking (lots of soup kitchen work and concession stand managing), french horn (okay, fine, I also play piano but that’s not the point).
Tell me that’s not stereotypical hahaha.</p>
<p>I also chatted with this other CC-er who is an asian varsity cheerleader who made state champs. Awesome! Who are all textureless math grinds now, huh?</p>
<p>Gah.
I just don’t have the resources or the opportunities to get interested in such. My parents don’t do anything. I don’t know how to find such an interest. But I mean, theatre? Art? Cooking? Sooooo boring. I used to play the clarinet actually, but it was boring, so I quit…</p>
<p>Notice something about the sample list you gave? Good grades, strong in math science, president of math/science clubs, etc. </p>
<p>Well here’s a tip. Play a varsity sport. That, in addition to those other things, would make an applicant alot more appealing despite whatever ethnicity they may be. ;)</p>
<p>If you were an admissions officer would you admit the stereotypical applicant, or would you admit someone who meets many of the qualifications the stereotypical applicant has, in addition to SPORTS? :P</p>
<p>~ Theos</p>
<p>DUDE. I DO play a varsity sport. Varsity cross-country and track =]
Though I am not a League qualifier, or State qualifier or anything like that. </p>
<p>I didn’t think that merely being a varsity letterman of a sport is legit…
Though now that I think of it, I’ve actually spent a majority of my time at practice…2 hours a day. Thanksssssssssss!!!111</p>
<p>well, i’m indian and the stereotype holds true for most people at my school. i, however, am not very skilled in science. math, yes, but still. </p>
<p>here’s my old chances thread that has my resume on it. don’t have to chance, but this is pretty much what i’ve got 
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<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/711034-like-words-man-who-has-spent-little-too-much-time-alone.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/711034-like-words-man-who-has-spent-little-too-much-time-alone.html</a></p>
<p>i think sports has a stereotype with asians as well. tennis seems to be most popular. varsity football or basketball is probably more impressive. </p>
<p>i also think the stereotype is that asians don’t have public speaking abilities or social skills in contexts, so proving that you’re skilled in communication.</p>
<p>I’m just really worried about the upcoming college application season. I don’t want to fail. And end up going to a UC or something. =[</p>
<p>I would kill for UC Berkeley or LA, so… yeah.</p>