<p>As many people may know most Asians don't have the easiest time with college admissions. When I was filling out the common application however, I noticed that when I selected Asian it pulled down a bunch of sub boxes to clarify which Asian I was. </p>
<p>Do colleges distinguish you within your ethnicity based on the sub box you check? If so do you think that means for someone from a South East Asian country? eg. Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam etc. I'm Vietnamese, does that make it slightly easier for me in the college admissions process than say, the stereotypical overachieving Indian or Chinese? I feel that many south east Asian countries are less developed and not as prominent in the top universities, except for maybe UC Berkeley.</p>
<p>Colleges may want your specific sub grouping to better place you in context, you’re guess is correct. How “easier” will they evaluate you? Who knows? Maybe not at all. Maybe a bit. </p>
<p>It’s really unknowable unless you’re actually in that deliberation room.</p>
<p>Well, there’s the simple fact that there are a lot more of the other ethnicities as a whole.</p>
<p>Just pulling some data from Wikipedia:</p>
<p>Vietnamese-American population: 1.5 million
Korean-American population: 1.7 million
Indian-American population: 3.2 million
Chinese-American population: 3.8 million</p>
<p>I’d say Vietnamese-Americans are fairly well represented at universities as a proportion of their total population. So no, I don’t think you’ll gain any significant advantage over other Asians.</p>
<p>you can bypass the discrimination asians face at ivy league schools and in the CA state system by going to other schools, which may be a lot better fit and you will be happier overall and get a better education.
if you list some details about what you think you want, some recommendations could be made.</p>
<p>like size of school, how do you feel about frats, what you think you want to major in etc…</p>