<p>Can someone comment how good or not is to use New Haven airport?</p>
<p>Saona63, you should ask that question in the big Parents’ thread.</p>
<p>lol, I just realized I was in the wrong place! and now I can’t delete it…thanks, I’ll repost</p>
<p>This article suggests Asians aren’t discriminated against:</p>
<p><a href=“UP CLOSE: What’s next for affirmative action? - Yale Daily News”>http://yaledailynews.com/blog/2014/09/22/up-close-whats-next-for-affirmative-action/</a></p>
<p>I personally think that is baloney. Don’t admit to being Asian if you can get away with it…</p>
<p>The evidence is clear that being a Chinese-American or Indian-American increases the chances of admission at “Top Twenty” colleges. Although those students are just 5% of American high school graduates, they are 20% of the students at most “Top Twenty” universities. Then, add the overseas students. At the University of Illinois, a “Top Ten” engineering school, almost HALF of engineering students come from China, South Korea and India. At most Ivy League colleges, overseas Asians are more than 10% of the first-year class, pushing total Asian enrollment to over 30% of total enrollment.</p>
<p>The numbers do NOT show that any college gives a preference for Asian-American students. Almost all of the “Top Twenty” schools focus on applicants who have scored above 700 on the reading SAT and the math SAT. The number of students with a 700+ on both scores is very small, but Asian-Americans are a large proportion of them.</p>
<p>Some colleges put a heavy emphasis on what they call “leadership”, and look for someone who was class president and captain of the football teams (Williams College has suggested about HALF of their students were class president or a team captain). Many Asian-American students are so heavily focused on academics that their leadership resume is a bit thin. Those are the students with a 2200 or 2400 SAT who are shocked to be rejected by a college…even though that college made clear its heavy emphasis on “leadership”.</p>
<p>In contrast, being African-American reduces the chances of admission to an Ivy League college. This year, 14% of high school students are African-American, compared with only 8% of Ivy Leaque students.</p>
<p>@alan, your math reasoning is overly simplistic. U are not taking into acct the number of asian & black students that actually apply. A great number of highly qualified asians apply, and a greater percentage of them get rejected. Then the ones who actually get in are expected to have higher gpa, scores, etc than even whites. The applicant pool of similarly academically qualified blacks is small. This is bourne out by the fact that the National Merit Corporation creates a separate scholar recognition award for blacks w a much lower PSAT cutoff.</p>
<p>U are also exposing your prejudice about asians that they are all studying drones. Asians are no more all studying drones than blacks are all _____…</p>
<p>“your prejudice about asians that they are all studying drones” Of course they aren’t all studying drones. But the ones who are, who also happen to achieve top grades and scores, are disproportionately applying to schools that populate the CC fora. So those that happen to be drones (and like I said, I fully understand that not all Asians are this), are also informed about “elite” colleges and drop apps to them in droves. </p>
<p>My kid goes to a super high ranked HS that’s 90% Asian. She’s half white, half Chinese. The kids call her the “white girl”. LOL. Funny thing is many of them recognize that they are pretty drone-like – and find good humor about it.</p>
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This gets stated often on CC, but I don’t think it’s true (or at least not proven), especially if we expand the “etc.” to include all the things that highly selective colleges consider in terms of admissions. It’s been debated endlessly, but so far nobody has proven that Yale (or any other selective college) is biased against Asians in admission, Yale (and other selective colleges) deny that they are biased against Asians, and almost all selective colleges enroll Asian students in proportions substantially higher than their representation in the population. So, to get back to the subject of this thread, if Yale really is biased against Asians, it’s either a secret conspiracy, or it’s an unconscious bias. In either case, it’s highly unlikely that declining to mark race on your application will make a whit of difference, unless the rest of your application makes it impossible to tell what your race is–something that I think is quite unusual. Indeed, if there is a secret conspiracy, the school might be more likely to ferret out the race of people who don’t mark the box and reject them. So really, don’t bother.</p>
<p>Surnames can be misleading. Years ago I attended a wedding between a Kim bride and a Lee groom. Many of the Kims were surprised when they learned at the ceremony that it was a miscegenistic marriage.</p>
<p>This is how the question reads on the common application:
The questions in this section, while helpful to colleges, are entirely optional, and you’re welcome to move on without answering them. Before you do, please confirm for us that you’ve completed this section to your satisfaction.*</p>
<p>Because these questions are optional, I would recommend to leave them blank unless completing it helps your application in some way. If SAT2 scores are optional, then you make the same decision about whether to send those scores or not, and of course, it’s whether it boosts your application or not.</p>
<p>Frankly, being white or Asian does not boost one’s application and so I would recommend not checking the box if you are white or Asian.</p>