<p>Hi! :D I was wondering if any of this would help in college admissions. The top schools I want to go to are Princeton, UChicago, Stanford, Berkeley, and Notre Dame.</p>
<p>I'm half Asian. My mom moved to America from the Philippines as a baby. On applications should I say I'm white or Asian? Or should I say I'm mixed (if possible)?
I kind of have a Harvard legacy. My great uncle went to Harvard for business, but I'm not sure if he went there for undergrad or grad.</p>
<p>Thanks! :D</p>
<p>You can say mixed, I’m pretty sure. That’s what I’d do too. But if you like to identify one over the other it is acceptable to put one. For Berkeley it will not matter they don’t consider race. P, Chi and Stan do. At Notre Dame, there is the smallest percentage of Asians t of all these, and you might actually be considered underrepresented. I know an Asian girl going there this fall. Find out about your secondary level legacy. I don’t think it will make much a difference but you should put it down and have the details right.</p>
<p>That is a lot of applications and different essays. You have common app. UC is separate ap and 2 essays. P has it’s own ap, iirc. And Chi has a special essay supplement. Stan has a lot of supplements that should be thoughtfully written. Get worrying more about that that these minor questions.</p>
<p>Check “mixed”. But if mixed requires u to specify, then pick white and keep a low profile about asian until AFTER u get admitted. </p>
<p>Uncle is not a legacy. Legacy is a direct ancestor: parents, Gparents, GGparents.</p>
<p>I’m not an admissions officer but I’d say that you should just either put yourself down as white, or just not report your ethnicity. Asian applicants tend to have a rougher time applying to selective schools; it’s almost like an anti-hook, if such a thing exists.</p>