<p>Filipinos are Asians by the federal definitions. Once again, I appeal to readers of the thread to go up to the first few posts of the thread to follow the links out to the official definitions.</p>
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<p>That is a choice available to every applicant, by law, and a choice respected by colleges. </p>
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<p>Sorry tokenadult. I wasn’t really thinking in terms of federal definitions, but rather of how folks in diverse communities identified themselves.</p>
<p>^ tokenadult, thank you for all the links you provided in the early posts of this thread. I read the information in many of the links regarding the federal definitions of race but I did not see anything that gave any guidance as to what percentage an individual had to be of a certain nationality in order to list that as their nationality. I am just personally curious at this point, did I miss something in the links or is this issue of percentages purposely left vague? You hear everything from 1/8 to 50%. It can be confusing, and even the individual colleges are vague when you ask them about multi cultural students and how you should list them on their application.</p>
<p>I believe the limit is 1/16, but don’t have any evidence to support that.</p>
<p>"Hispanics, African Americans, and Native Americans are under-represented minorities. I would bet that at any private university, and then the more competitive public schools, would have these 3 ethnicities as the lowest % of their student body. " -Poseidenj</p>
<p>Nonsense. You’re saying that at “any private university” Asians will be the biggest group of non-whites on campus? Again, I say nonsense. You don’t know what you’re talking about. Providence College: 2% African American, 2% Hispanic, 2% ASIAN! St. John’s University (NYC): 16% African American, 15% Hispanic, 16% ASIAN! Marquette University: 5% African American, 5% Hispanic, 5% ASIAN! Fordham University: 5% AFrican American, 6% ASIAN!, 12% Hispanic.</p>
<p>There is no hard-and-fast amount of ancestry that one must have to be affiliated with a particular “race.” Even for American Indians, the most regulated category, the Bureau of the Census definitions (used on college forms) refer to “community attachment,” so that someone who behaves as a member of an Indian (Native American) community can be counted as an Indian.</p>
<p>“Nonresident alien” is another category to look for. </p>
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<p>And sometimes “race/ethnicity unreported” is a category with huge numbers.</p>
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<p>everyone.</p>
<p>Hi there, this was originally a response to another thread concerning the qualifications needed to get into UGA. I noticed a trend in the responses, perhaps initiated by the original poster. Everyone included their race, gender, and ethnicity in the information that may affect there admission. One person said she was of Nigerian descent and should be admitted because she could “help” other minority students. I realize that I am a senior here at UGA and the people who answered the post were mostly juniors in high school, so I mean this in the most compassionate way: There is NO Affirmative Action at UGA! Stop including the aforementioned identifiers, as it has NO baring on your admittance! Also UGA is a huge school please don’t be naive about what you can and cannot accomplish at this institution. That being said, strong GPAs and test scores are your best bet into this University. Good luck to all those interested.</p>
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<p>A quick glimpse at section C7 of UGA’s CDS supports Senior’s post. “Racial/ethnic status” is marked “not considered” and has been that way since at least 2003.</p>
<p>I think we’re arguing over definitions here. UGA abandoned “race-conscious admissions policies” in 2001 after it lost a Supreme Court suit. That doesn’t mean it doesn’t have the same goals and aspirations that virtually every other college and university in the United States has, to reflect the society around it:</p>
<p>[UGA</a> Commits Million to Minority Scholarships - Education News - redOrbit](<a href=“http://www.redorbit.com/news/education/356722/uga_commits_2_million_to_minority_scholarships/]UGA”>http://www.redorbit.com/news/education/356722/uga_commits_2_million_to_minority_scholarships/)</p>
<p>Admissions and finaid are two extremely different things.</p>
<p>not unless you’re rich.</p>
<p>No then they’re definitely two extremely different things, it just doesn’t matter to you.</p>
<p>Good, eff AA. Wouldn’t want to go to a school that had it.</p>
<p>no affirmative action at Clemson too
leads to a lack of minorities on campus</p>
<p>If it weren’t for affirmative action there would be no hope for African American families to improve their life.</p>
<p>Gosh, I really hate to stir this pot, but what are you saying? I’m sure it’s not that African American families are unable to improve their own lives without government assistance and intervention. I’m positive you’re not making such a generalization. If an African American man can be elected President of the United States of America in a fair, democratic contest, how can one ever insist that AA’s are not capable of achieving on their own merits?</p>