<p>what top schools (like Notre Dame) would consider asian/pacific islander as URM (better acceptance rate), rather than ASIAN (which would make it harder)?</p>
<p>Well, here's a list of the top 30 Universities and LACs (according to US News & World Report) where the amount of Asian/Pacific Islander students makes up under 10% of the student body (percentages are from collegeboard). I'd imagine that schools with these sorts of percentages would be more likely to view Asians as URMs.</p>
<p>Vanderbilt University... 7%
University of Notre Dame... 8%
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill... 7%
Wake Forest University... 6%
College of William & Mary... 8%
Davidson College... 4%
Grinnell College... 8%
Colgate University... 7%
Hamilton College... 8%
Washington & Lee University... 4%
Oberlin College... 7%
Bates College... 6%
Macalester College... 8%
Colorado College... 4%
Bucknell University... 6%
Trinity College... 6%
Lafayette College... 4%
Kenyon College... 5%
College of the Holy Cross... 5%
University of Richmond... 5%
Sewanee, University of the South... 1%
Bard College... 3%
Connecticut College... 3%
Union College... 5%</p>
<p>wow, that's well researched, THANKS!</p>
<p>My D attended programs/weekends at Grinnell, WUSTL and Amherst that were directed towards URMs. There were many Asians at all of these programs. She also went to a diversity weekend at Rice, but can't remember if there were Asian students invited to it or not, so check.</p>
<p>You are on the right track, good luck!</p>
<p>PS, you can get the % Asians attending a school from Princeton Review, it's a great way to start your search.</p>