<p>So, I'm Jewish (= my ethnicity too). Will it hurt me if I write other and then jewish (becuase I'm pretty sure Jews are over-represented in college) or will it be neutral?</p>
<p>Jews are overrepresented in college? Being Jewish is a race? Is this Berlin, 1935? Those statements read like a precursor to the Nuremberg Laws. </p>
<p>To answer your question, I would go with honesty.</p>
<p>I don't think being Jewish will either help or hurt your chances, aranyria.</p>
<p>in responce to laxtaxi</p>
<p>Well... I mean, it is a race. When the doctor asks you for your race, they want to know if you are ashkenazi or sephardic jew because genes and suseptability to diseases are different. Hitlers' problem was not that he recognized jews for a race. it was that persecuted them.</p>
<p>Just put down white.</p>
<p>i probablyw ill. my dad wants me to put down jewish. it seems easier to just write white though. i mean, it's not really lying, is it?</p>
<p>In today's America, ashkenazi Jews are considered white.
For the most part, including college admissions.</p>
<p>If anything, I think being Jewish would help in admissions, considering the enormous discrimination they faced in the college admissions process up until the mid 1900s, especially at prestigious schools (especially especially Harvard). Putting down "White" isn't lying though. Jews may be ethnically different from Italians, Anglos, etc, but they're all White. IMO, it would be like putting down Jamaican as a race instead of Black--probably isn't going to make a difference at all, but it seems weird.</p>
<p>Jews are overrepresented, but due to similar factors as the Asian population. They typically count as white, when it comes to race. I think the OP should put down white. I think that it is of marginal importance, but if anything, just putting down white would help, not hurt.</p>
<p>I don't think it will make much of a difference, if any at all.</p>
<p>With all due respect, I agree with Laxtaxi. A religion is not a race. Anyone of any race can convert to the Jewish faith. All are welcome if they want to join. I doubt it would hurt you, but probably if I reviewed applications I would think it weird. The racial groups are somewhat defined, and there is another thread on this. Focus on something else to make your application special.</p>
<p>Ha. This is like the same exact thread as the Greek one.</p>
<p>Edit: ^ Jews are an ethno-religious group. So unlike other religions like Islam or Buddhism, Judaism is strongly connected to the ethnicity/race of its followers. Sure, anyone can technically convert to Judaism, but the majority of Jews also share a common ethnic background.</p>
<p>And just as with that thread, if you mark "other" it will look as if you don't know what a Caucasian is.</p>
<p>Hippo, why just jews with a shared "ethnicity"? Arab Muslims, Chinese buddhists, Irish Catholics, etc. etc. share "ethnicity". This is not in and of itself race, especially as colleges define it.</p>
<p>Really hunt? I was gonna put other because I'm white and whites are pretty overrepresented. I don't think they would assume someone doesn't know what a caucasian is...seriously, what college applicant doesn't know that?</p>
<p>Jews aren't all white; there are LOTS of Asian and black Jews. Which on the US might be due to adoption or intermarriage or conversion, but there are Jewish communities in Ethiopia and some other parts of Africa who are not white. Also during the Spanish inquisition, many Jews had to convert or pretend they weren't Jewish so there are also many Hispanics descended from those Jews...</p>
<p>But don't put "Jewish" down as a "race" on a college application.</p>
<p>Even middle easterners are considered caucasian here. Just use that.</p>
<p>Hippo, why just jews with a shared "ethnicity"? Arab Muslims, Chinese buddhists, Irish Catholics, etc. etc. share "ethnicity". This is not in and of itself race, especially as colleges define it.</p>
<p>The difference between Jews and Muslims/Christians is that the latter two are much, much more spread out in terms of which ethnicities consider themselves them. Arabs and the Irish make up only a small portion of Muslims and Christians respectively. The Jews on the other hand are by and large the same ethnicity (except for the minority of Jews who are Black, east Asian, etc). </p>
<p>Jews are an ethno-religious group, Muslims and Christians are not. Ethnoreligious</a> - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</p>
<p>EDIT: Also, have you ever heard the term "secular Jew"? It can be used to refer to people who are Jewish in terms of their ethnicity/culture but do not believe in/practice the religion of Judaism.</p>
<p>The Jews are indeed an ethnic group (they are still Caucasian though).</p>
<p>Jewish is an ethnic group, but not considered as a separate ethnicity or race in college admissions. It isn't a race regardless; it's an ethnicity.</p>
<p>Colleges collect racial/ethnic data as part of their obligations to the Federal government in return for receiving Federal financial assistance. The government uses the information as part of its obligation to ensure that there is no discrimination in the programs the taxpayers fund. The categories were defined by the Office of Management and Budget here:Revisions</a> to the Standards for the Classification of Federal Data on Race and Ethnicity. </p>
<p>Now you can argue all you want and cite Wikipedia forever, but these are how the categories are defined by the government's standard setting agency for the purposes of data collection.</p>
<p>And btw, Hitler would agree with you all that Jews are a race or an ethnic group as would ever other anti-Semite in history. Keep that in mind.</p>