<p>haha nyu stern...</p>
<p>i'd kill for that.</p>
<p>with a 2.8 gpa</p>
<p>and a 1190 sat, i cant even get into sdsu.</p>
<p>i smoke bud all the time.</p>
<p>used to g-bang,</p>
<p>been to juve a couple times.</p>
<p>so next time your parents ***** tell them the story of my life</p>
<p>I hate being Korean... I applied to Korean universities after I took the Korean SAT for the second time after a gap year and had to give up the sciences for the humanities just because of my scores and grades and my 'abnormal' English skills. All I got from my father as a consolation was "You didn't deserve it... You didn't study hard enough..."... ...Sure, I never got used to the strenuous hours of study that my school illegally and forcefully applied to the students day after day, and my mental health was bound to break up sooner or later, but I still can't accept the fact that I should give up my interests just because I didn't comply enough to the system. My heart's broken and I just can't find a good enough grave to lay my dreams... ...but at least I applied to someplace in the US. Dad doesn't know about this... yet.</p>
<p>Sorry for the irrelevant post everyone...
I had to spill this out... It was driving me nuts.</p>
<p>I think I would be a stereotype asian because I look and act geeky even by Korean standards (reading lots of books, having a terrible fashion sense, falling in love with math)... but heck, I confess I've been away from the States for too long to really grasp a thorough understanding of what a stereotype asian really is. Perhaps what I really longed for deep down inside was the freedom to act against the decisions and expectations that were demanded of me that my environment really didn't allow. Would that still make me a stereotype asian...? I wonder in a corner of my mind. Perhaps there are other, mostly unacademic-related characteristics of me that are waiting to be discovered. Perhaps my true passions were basketball and painting and not reading books. I don't fully know. I don't know if I'll ever know.</p>
<p>If EC's were part of the Korean university admissions process, the EC's would have been standardized in some way... and everybody would have...
I don't want to think about it.</p>
<p>I apologize once again for the mostly personal statements...</p>
<p>and no offense... in any way.(Just in case I accidently said something terrible without knowing it.)</p>
<p>im asian and i don't fit in that stereotype. i "do" math, but im no math hardcore guy. plus, science,,, sigh... i just memorize stuff and that's it. but i don't love them.. not good at math.. i barely get an A..
No piano or violin guy... neither tennis.. no awards or anything. </p>
<p>i love spanish. i speak spanish fluently. im planning on to teach spanish to little kids in my local library and make it my top top EC of interest. </p>
<p>quick question. would an adcom see you're "different" from other asians if you are weak on math-science and no classical instrument played, etc? would there be any advantage? because i don't fit in the asian stereotype....</p>
<p>I know a girl at my school who only got a 27 on the ACT, she's Asian,and she's gorgeous with a great personality. Like, the way she puts on make up, this chick is hot. Anyway, she's not the stereotypical Asian and will probably go farther in life than most Asians. Most Asians are too focused on stats. Like, I am shooting for a 36 on the ACT, but I'm black. Not many blacks do that, so it means something. Being Asian, if your stats are too high then you're just another number in a big pool of stereotypical Asians. I'd probably have a better conversation with an Asian that got a 20 something on the ACT than one who got a 30 something.</p>
<p>Yeah, I find it the Asian stereotype hilarious though. I'm always categorized as the "white" Asian-the Asian group at my school all know me as that. And there's this one guy who is like the head the group and he despises me because he feels like it's wrong that I'm friends with many people in that clique just because I come off as a ditz sometime. My grades are somewhat average but I'm competitive, especially in UIL Academic Competitions. Haha, so he gets all ****ed off whenever I go to competition with them. So funny. I can't wait to see his reaction when I show up in the Humanities/Academic Decathlon class....</p>
<p>Personally though, I wish I had the work ethics like most of the other Asians at my school.</p>
<p>And yes, many Asians are very math/science-oriented...so many of them want to be engineers. Many go into business and the medical field too. </p>
<p>But it's funny how most Asians that fit the stereotype aren't at all interested in their culture....</p>
<p>^^ me, too. i slack off more times than i can count.</p>
<p>
So you're implying that just because she's gorgeous and has a great personality, she will somehow succeed more than what you deem is the "stereotypical" Asian??? Regardlesss of what you think, people succeed because of stats buddy and not looks. You're almost discouraging Asians to score high on tests or to study hard because it will be too stereotypical or somehow detrimental for them. Whether you're Asian or not, statistics and common sense prove that you are more likely to succees if you work hard, do well on SATs, get good grades, etc. While the pool of Asians may be higher at top colleges, keep in mind that Asians generally represent the greatest minority in these same universities. None of your remarks are validated or credible and you make yourself look like a dumbass and a hypocrite by saying that you would associate better with Asians that have lower test scores, especially when you seem to be aiming high yourself.</p>
<p>Like the above poster said, it's stupid to not want to work hard just because similar people do as well. It's like saying guys should want to wear dresses because other guys wear pants. </p>
<p>Being able to have better conversations with you will not take a person farther in life.</p>
<p>Resume looks like:</p>
<p>Math
Math
Math
Science
Science
Math
Science
Science
Violin
Piano
Piano
Violin
Viola
Clarinet
Clarinet
Flute</p>
<p>And schedule looks like:
AP Calculus EF
AP Calculus LM
AP Physics G
AP Chemistry
AP AP Physics L</p>
<p>Test scores look like:
SAT 2400
SATII Math VIC 1370
Physics 1960
Chem 3560
GPA: 48.6</p>
<p>I wish I were Korean. :rolleyes:</p>
<p>from my understanding. </p>
<p>pure quant.. math/science...visit MIT and you'll get hte idea of the misleading stereotype.</p>
<p>personal:</p>
<p>im tending to stray from the stereotype. i love history and am starting to really appreciate english..hopefully that helps?</p>
<p>similar here to. love languages and humanities-based (english, history, creative writing...) Not the guy of chem, phys, clarinet, philharmonic orchestra, phys phys chem chem extremely high GPA, blah blah.</p>
<p>I have a question about Asians, my parents and I were having a discussion on whether Indians and Arabs are Asians. I feel that they are since they live in Asia. Are they?</p>
<p>technically yes, b/c the countries are in asia</p>
<p>but we (indians) have our own culture, we're part of the desi 'race', persay. I think we should have our own bubble on forms considering we're the second largest population in the world. but then again, china doesnt have their own either.</p>
<p>having lived in the middle east for about ten years, i can probably speak for arabs as well. Once again, a very different culture from the stereotypical asian (chinese, japanese, etc. which, forgive my igornance seems to be similar), it is more like the 'desi', culture. That's probably because there are so many of us in the middle east. I mean when i lived in dubai, most people knew three languages, not necessarily fluently, but enough to get by: English, Arabic, and surprisingly Hindi</p>
<p>Yeah, humanities rock. Being an Asian with a keen interest in humanities is cool, especially if your parents immigrated from China. You don't get any help with those subjects, while they can help you with math and science.</p>
<p>Check out Malaysian "asian"s (Malaysian nationality but of Chinese race) like myself, they are typically lazier than your average asian joe because the whole mood of this country is just so laid back........I got a 2000 on my SAT and i jam with my friends often (guitar), scored badly on maths and i like david lynch films =D</p>
<p>27 reasons why I'm a horrible asian. </p>
<ol>
<li>I hate seafood and don't eat it.</li>
<li>I hate spicy food and don't eat it.</li>
<li>I don't wear glasses.</li>
<li>In my spare time, I read up on stocks on Yahoo Finance. Don't ask, it's a hobby.</li>
<li>I have a ~3.6 :) (OMG!!! 3.6 Holy cow!!)</li>
<li>I hate science ;)</li>
<li>I don't mind math, but calculus (as taught by current teacher) sucks. It's not hard to understand, but my teacher makes it harder than need be.</li>
<li>My SAT: I'm aiming for like a 2160.</li>
<li>I scored highest in writing on a practice SAT. (610R, 670M, 750W)</li>
<li>My intended major=FINANCE.</li>
<li>Top choice school: NYU Stern</li>
<li>Career choice: Stock trader</li>
<li>I don't plan to take any science senior year.</li>
<li>All my friends are Americans/Europeans. </li>
<li>I have no intention of going to Korea (to live there, at least), or living in LA.</li>
<li>I enjoy eating ice cream.</li>
<li>I'm going against what my mom wants me to do :) (that's a rare case)</li>
<li>I speak English at home.</li>
<li>I enjoy watching The Apprentice.</li>
<li>I don't play any musical instruments.</li>
<li>I have no intention whatsoever of getting an MD, JD or PhD(engineering/hard science). The highest I intend to go is MBA.</li>
<li>I actually make decisions on my own. I don't let my parents decide anything for me.</li>
<li>My bookcase is filled with books about various nonmath and nonscience subjects: business, financem history, English, and every newsweek since october-I get them for APUSH.</li>
<li>Speaking of which, I take APUSH and AP French.</li>
<li>I plan to take AP English, AP Calc AB (NOT BC!!!OMG), AP Euro, AP Econ. (notice there's NO SCIENCE.)</li>
<li>I scored 630/61%ile in Bio-E.</li>
<li>My least favorite class is science. My worst class (because my calc teacher sucks) is math. My best classes are English and APUSH.</li>
<li>I do things just for the hell of it. (Yahoo! Finance and I do textbook art-I draw all over my physics textbook.) </li>
</ol>
<p>My asianness grade: D-/F.
My ability to stand out amongst countless asians in my school: A+/A</p>
<p>The asians at my school are purely "math, science, piano, violin". Nothing else. So I don't see them much, because I'm more like "English, APHistory, art (I do it for fun-LITERALLY-I should show you some of my doodles in my physics book), Yahoo! Finance".</p>
<p>lmfao @ this thread</p>
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<p>According to my FYS professor, Arab-Americans in the United States are actually classified as White, not Asian. Hey, don't ask me, ask the federal Government.</p>