<p>But my mom didn't put my dad (the Asian part of me) on my birth certificate. Can I say I'm Asian on my application for colleges? I don't have any communication with my biological father and I don't really see it happening, I don't know how I would find him. Can I really say I'm Asian without any proof other than I look Asian.</p>
<p>Why would you want to be Asian? Asians are discriminated against in the college admissions process.</p>
<p>The Comon App queston is about how you identify yourself- not what you look like, what’s on a birth certificate or your last name or whatever.</p>
<p>And, some of us are still trying to figure out which colleges practice so-called discrimination against Asian Americans.</p>
<p>I’ll steer far wide of the “discrimination against Asians” question, but I will say that you wouldn’t get any admissions advantage out of identifying as Asian or identifying as white (if that’s what your mother is).</p>
<p>I was also thinking about financial aid would being s minority and a first time college graduate help at all with that?</p>
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<p>You have a 50% chance of being Asian, based on my back-of-the-envelope calculation.</p>