<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>You’ve posted this on Yale’s, Columbia, Princeton, and Harvards thread. Maybe you should post it on a few more…</p>
<p>Each school has different criteria for URMs.</p>
<p>You’re really being rude on these forums. Just for this you shouldn’t be accepted. Why don’t you try and get accepted based on your stats and everything else rather than your luck of being part native American.</p>
<p>Have you seen my stats?</p>
<p>I myself am part Navajo, you claim to be 15% Native American, what tribe? Unlike your arrogant self, I do not make these threads boasting about my wild card. </p>
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<p>I have never boasted. I am asking a simple question, which I am finding to be too difficult for some to answer.</p>
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<p>Okay… ‘Super URM’? u cant be serious</p>
<p>I don’t know exactly what Princeton (or Harvard, Yale, wherever) does about determining who qualifies as a Native American. But I have met Native American students at Harvard, Swarthmore, Dartmouth, and Stanford, and my impression is that you would not get any significant admissions boost unless you are an enrolled member of a tribe and have some regular involvement in the tribe and its culture. Otherwise, it’s just a personal detail that may be interesting or not depending what you do with it.</p>
<p>How do you get to be 15% Native American? For obvious reasons, ethnic classifications tend to come in units whose denominators are multiples of 2: 1/2, 1/4, 1/8, 1/16, etc. 15% is especially hard to fit into that, although I suppose you come close if you had one full-blooded NA great-grandparent, and another great-grandparent who was 1/4 Native American. In any event, I doubt that’s a very strong connection.</p>
<p>How is this “super”?</p>
<p>I’m not a statistician, but I believe that JHS is correct, and the full possible universe of your Native American DNA is 100%, 50%, 25%, 12.5%, 6.25%, 3.125%, etc.</p>
<p>I’m guessing you might be 1/8, or 12.5%, NA and that neither your math skills nor your tribal involvement are very strong.</p>
<p>Good luck anyway.</p>
<p>Yea I must be pretty dumb at math to be in Calc 3. I recalculated my percentage geneologically and it’s actually 25%. The title “super” is inappropriate, I must admit. Not really sure why I put that.</p>
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<p>…or 100 percent ■■■■■</p>
<p>Even with the Native American hook, you will still need to prove, by your stats, you are academically qualified, and able to successfully complete Harvard level coursework to graduate. </p>
<p>The Ivies love URMs, but they love their high graduation statistics just as much.</p>
<p>Well, I have a 4.5 GPA and a 35 ACT, four 800s, and 6 5’s.</p>
<p>I’ll put this as straightforwardly as possible:</p>
<p>The posters in this thread are offering valid and valuable information on how you could proceed to maximize your chances of admission, not solely based on racial status but also through academic and extracurricular excellence.</p>
<p>Instead of listening, you’re shooting them down and boasting evermore blatantly about your stats. Please understand why they’re antagonizing you.</p>
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<p>Actually between HYPC, they’re pretty similar.</p>
<p>@Concerto Some are being rational and helpful, but others are being disparaging and useless. I am treating both groups accordingly.</p>
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