<p>What race could I put down in my application?</p>
<p>What if I was Chinese/Asian and I was born in Canada, but my father was born in South Africa? Both the parents are still Chinese, though.</p>
<p>I'm not sure, but it seems like putting down "Asian" or "Chinese Canadian" would work. Don't put down "African" simply because your dad was born there - it's ethnically wrong.</p>
<p>Put down the race you are, or identify with. South African or Canadian represents a nationality, not a race.</p>
<p>How about not disclosing your race?</p>
<p>It's none of their business, if you ask me.</p>
<p>If anyone cares, I'm a Pacific Islander:</p>
<p>I live on Long Island, and I am peaceful (pacific)</p>
<p>Thus I am a Pacific Islander.</p>
<p>"If anyone cares, I'm a Pacific Islander:</p>
<p>I live on Long Island, and I am peaceful (pacific)</p>
<p>Thus I am a Pacific Islander."</p>
<p>Go for it ethicity are race are a state of mind</p>
<p>"Put down the race you are, or identify with. South African or Canadian represents a nationality, not a race."</p>
<p>This is very simple. You are Chinese. I'm black. Can I move to China and call myself Chinese?</p>
<p>You are Chinese. It doesn't matter where you're born. Like kirmum said, I couldn't move to China and not be black. In you're case it's not like you're bending the rules- you would be lying</p>
<p>You are Asian. As Malcolm X said, "If a cat gives birth in an oven, we don't call the kittens biscuits."</p>
<p>200 meters.</p>
<p>Yes. Race is race. You may identify with a specific culture or ethnic group, but racially you are what you are. It gets more interesting if your are racially-mixed because then, sometimes, people might deny one of their racial backgrounds in favor of another. I've seen this happen when people identify more strongly with one parent's culture over the other parent's (i.e. Native Hawaiian over caucasian) or make an effort to hide their racially-mixed heritage because of fear of social marginalization.</p>
<p>Yeah, but this would just be outright lying. She's Chinese. I think a lot more people would be moving to Mexico if this was a truthful practice.</p>
<p>stupid question :) j/k</p>
<p>of course, follow direction and PUT DOWN UR RACE!! u know what it is</p>
<p>Why does this merit a question at all? </p>
<p>If both your parents are chinese, then you are Chinese</p>
<p>"You are Asian. As Malcolm X said, "If a cat gives birth in an oven, we don't call the kittens biscuits.""</p>
<p>LOL I need to remember that one</p>
<p>Well, You can put Olmec, since Olmec civilization was Chinese and arrived in Meso America 3,000 years ago and was the mother civilization of the Aztecs, Incans, Mayans. </p>
<p>Blacks can also put Periclu. Which is a Black Australian tribe found in Southern California. They were in America for over 20,000 years.
<a href="http://www.geolsoc.org.uk/template.cfm?name=BA200402%5B/url%5D">http://www.geolsoc.org.uk/template.cfm?name=BA200402</a></p>
<p>Either way, there should be a box that says " Original American". </p>
<p>More boxes! We need more boxes!</p>
<p>do either of your parents call themselves african americans? if not, you musnt be one either. youre chinese, and you know it.</p>
<p>Not to sound too absurd, but if a boy were raised by wolves it would be hard to convince him he wasn't a wolf. The Common Application asks "If you wish to be identified with a particular ethnic group, please check all that apply"
<a href="http://www.admissions.college.harvard.edu/prospective/tools/download/Application_05-08.pdf%5B/url%5D">http://www.admissions.college.harvard.edu/prospective/tools/download/Application_05-08.pdf</a></p>
<p>The definition of ethnic according to the Oxford Englsh Dictionary:</p>
<p>ethnic</p>
<p> adjective 1 relating to a group of people having a common national or cultural tradition</p>
<p>The application asks for ethnic group, not race.</p>
<p>Of course, we all know what the colleges really want and how they use this in conjunction with URM applications. But is a 1/16th Native American living on Long Island really more Indian than an Asian boy adopted by members of a tribe at birth and raised on a reservation? And if the argument is made that the fact that he is a tribal member now makes him 100% Native American, why can't an argument be made that a Chinese raised in South Africa be African?</p>
<p>Unfortunately, the distinction can mean the difference between getting in and not. The third generation Spaniard, growing up in LA who never thought of himself as 'Spanish' who only put down hispanic to gain entry into UCLA med school as an URM (true story) seems like an unfortunate, but all to often used manipulation of the system.</p>
<p>However, this doesn't get away from the extreme importance that programs such as Title IX and affirmative action have meant in terms of giving female athletes and URMs opportunities that would never have happened otherwise. And for those who wish we could get to a meritocracy, there is increasing discussion that with only 43% of the college population being male and getting worse, we may soon need affirmative action for men:</p>
<p>From Boston Magazine (September 2003):</p>
<p>In a complete reversal that has taken only 30 years, today's universities and colleges are increasingly dominated by women, a trend that's only beginning to attract widespread attention. There are nearly 2 million more women than men in college now; by 2010, there will be 138 women for every 100 men. While it's highest among blacks, the gender gap holds true across all racial and ethnic groups, ages, and states. (Maine is at the very top with 154 women per 100 men in college.) That makes achieving balance between men and women one of the hottest topics in university admissions. A school's survival depends on it. Campuses skewed too far toward one or the other gender can turn off students of both sexes...</p>
<p>Boys also drop out of high school at rates 30 percent higher than girls. One hundred thirty-three women will get bachelor's degrees in Boston for every 100 men. "You'd call it a national crisis," says Pollack, a psychologist who teaches at Harvard Medical School -- "if you were looking at it." So what if men comprise 51 percent of the general public, but only 43 percent of the university and college population? So what if women have to date men with less education? In fact, the stakes are far more serious than the Saturday-night social woes of college coeds. There are economic and social implications, too. College-educated men earn $1.25 million more over their lifetimes than men who have only high school diplomas. They're more likely to have jobs and be productive at work, and they pay more in taxes while avoiding such government subsidies as welfare and Medi-caid. They are less likely to father children out of wedlock or be convicted of crimes, and more likely to vote, volunteer for civic activities, and describe themselves as happy...</p>
<p>Tom Mortenson, a senior scholar at the Pell Institute for the Study of Opportunity in Higher Education, was the first to sound a warning when he noticed boys weren't keeping up with the gains that girls were making in higher education. But until recently, no one listened. "We have to find much better answers for boys," he says. "We have to. You can't write off half the population." What's to blame? Popular culture, in part, which suggests it's not cool for boys to be smart or educated. High school boys spend more time partying, playing video games, and exercising, while girls are studying, doing volunteer work, and caring for their families, according to a UCLA study. There are biological factors at work, too. Girls learn to read and write earlier than boys, and because they're better at sitting still in class, they're less likely to be disciplined. Boys, who already find school difficult, fall behind, become discouraged, and give up.
<a href="http://www.bostonmagazine.com/ArticleDisplay.php?id=279%5B/url%5D">http://www.bostonmagazine.com/ArticleDisplay.php?id=279</a></p>
<p>Admissions Officers Weigh a Heretical Idea: Affirmative Action for Men
By ANDREW BROWNSTEIN</p>
<p>Because of declining male enrollments, many admissions officials are considering affirmative-action programs for men, said speakers at the annual meeting of the National Association for College Admission Counseling. </p>
<p>Harry Dawe, assistant director of admissions at Oberlin College, said Saturday that he recently raised the issue to deal with what he called his "axiomatic" belief that boys are late bloomers and tend not to come into their own academically until late in high school. The idea that this factor should be taken into account in admissions raised eyebrows among his colleagues at Oberlin, who felt that men were "an already privileged, if not oppressing group," he said.
<a href="http://chronicle.com/free/2000/10/2000100904n.htm%5B/url%5D">http://chronicle.com/free/2000/10/2000100904n.htm</a></p>