What race should I mark? ASIAN

Applying to College
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<p>I pride myself on my integrity and am saddened to go low and play the game, but I'm a senior applying to college this year. I was wondering if marking Asian rather than unknown would give me a disadvantage, especially in terms of expected high math SAT scores and privileged background, of which I have neither. </p>

<p>The thing is, I am of mixed Chinese and Korean ethnicity, with Japanese nationality. Ispent my childhood in both Japan and China and immigrated to America at 7. I don't have an obvious Asian name.</p>

<p>In this case, would my complicated and multinational background give me a edge in diversity, or would being Asian still give me overall a disadvantage? </p>

<p>Thanks!</p>

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<p>Questions about ethnicity & race are addressed on this thread:</p>

<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-admissions/1228264-race-college-admission-faq-discussion-9-a.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-admissions/1228264-race-college-admission-faq-discussion-9-a.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Please direct further questions and comments there.</p>