<p>I am part Native American and live in North Dakota. I'm curious as to how much of a boost this will be for the class of 2016. Thanks a lot for your time!</p>
<p>I think it will definitely help, but you should think of it as the icing on an already moist freshly baked cake…:)</p>
<p>Being an URM potentially could help but you still need to have very good test scores and ECs. There are outstanding candidates from minority groups. Last year, a daughter of a former AA cabinet member was admitted to Harvard, Yale, Princeton and Stanford. She went to a prestigous private school, spent a few months in Europe, had everything lined up right. On the paper, she is still counted as an URM.</p>
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<p>Who was the cabinet member? Is it a secret?</p>
<p>@collegealum If that much information about the daughter is not public knowledge, I see no reason why HParent should be more specific.</p>
<p>Sprinter is totally correct.</p>
<p>It might help a little (ie maybe 100-150 points on the SAT), but don’t expect to get the kind of boost that blacks receive.</p>
<p>^Hmm…those (high school students ) “in the know”, usually seem to give more >>>to Native Americans!</p>
<p>^Well, they either aren’t “in the know” or are lying. Blacks get much bigger boosts than any URM group (usually around 400 points on the SAT).</p>
<p>I think people may say that Native Americans and Hispanics get similar treatment because it isn’t politically correct to note that when it comes to affirmative action, blacks are in a league of their own due to their atrocious (callin’ a spade a spade) performance on standardized tests.</p>