<p>I noticed that many North American college application asks if you are a minority or not like if you are part of a Native American Tribe.</p>
<p>My question is, why? Does that mean they get it easier from the admission or what?</p>
<p>^That’s because there are scholarships specifically for Native Americans, and yes they’re technically URMs. Almost more than any other groups Native Americans are a URM. I have about 7% in me but not enough to claim heritage, my great-grandfather sold off our number.</p>
<p>What do you mean “sold off our number.”?</p>
<p>Because America has had a long brutal history against non-whites, minorities are given special treatment for various case including easier admission; but it’s not like their are enough applying to make a significant difference.</p>
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<p>Well as I understand it, my great-grandfather had some paper or something proving we were part of the Cherokee tribe, like a title deed that he sold off. Or gave away, or something. Mom tells the story so I’m not entirely sure of the validity or *** it exactly means.</p>
<p>Well, schools love to have diversity. Why? So on the fliers they send out they can say “15% African American. Or 10% Hispanic. Or, only 70% White”</p>
<p>So, to make sure there is a better chance they receive the diverse applicants they want, they ask you what ethnicity you are. Then in the admissions process they can compare your application to Whitey, and if you are similar, or there are already to many Whites, you can get the nod.</p>
<p>It’s a wonderful system.</p>
<p>If you are a minority, use it, You have a much better chance for admission and free grant money. Check out the UC diversity mix. When will caucasians be considered the minority. Geez.</p>
<p>What the hell? How is that fair?</p>
<p>because rich white legacies get the nod against average white people …urm and legacies have a slight advantage against the average middle class white guy</p>
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<p>It’s not. But life’s not fair.</p>
<p>They really should replace the policy with a socioeconomic one. The middle-to-high class URMs are the ones benefiting the most, while lower-class whites and Asians are pretty much getting shafted.</p>
<p>How come on the Common Application they had a specific question asking if you were Hispanic/Latino?</p>
<p>Why not Black/African American?</p>
<p>Life isn’t fair, get over it.</p>
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<p>Because there s a rising population of hispanics in america so colleges want as many as they get so they can attract other hispanics. And yes holden888 it’s not fair but welcome to America.</p>
<p>The hardest thing you could probably do is try to get into an engineering program as a white, middle class male</p>
<p>No the toughest thing is getting a scholarship as a middle class white male, better hope you get a 35+ on the ACT</p>
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<p>Because Hispanic/Latino is not a race? Someone who is Hispanic can be basically any race.</p>
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<p>You act as if affirmative action is something inevitable, like death. </p>
<p>It isn’t. One Supreme Court case could potentially end it forever.</p>
<p>Actually the supreme court already umbels affirmative action in Bakke vs. University of Cal. And it’s hard to get a court case overturned that already has a precedent.</p>
<p>*upheld (damn autocorrect)</p>
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<p>Not really. Today’s Supreme Court would have banned affirmative action in either Grutter or Gratz.</p>
<p>Besides, many landmark cases have been ones that have overturned precedents – Brown v. Board of Education, which overthrew Plessy v. Ferguson (i.e., “separate but equal”), is one.</p>