Will being half-Asian work against my kids in top college acceptances?

[Anonymous]

My kids are half-White and half Indian. Can’t we just say white in applications?

[Anonymous]

you're screwed either way.

-parent of half Asian/white kids

[Anonymous]

no - it won't. but don't worry, you can be like the other parents on this forum and blame it on that afterwards.

[Anonymous]

Half-Asian, half-White here. I researched each school and picked white or Asian based on which was underrepresented.

[Anonymous]

For top schools, you do better is you’re white.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Half-Asian, half-White here. I researched each school and picked white or Asian based on which was underrepresented.

This.

[Anonymous]

There's no multiracial box? And is the last name a giveaway for ethnicity?

[Anonymous]

no, you are screwed either way.

should've married a black person.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There's no multiracial box? And is the last name a giveaway for ethnicity?

NP here and most Indian names have been shortened and can pass for white.

[Anonymous]

Don't game, be.

Seriously, let your kid fill out the application, and check what they want to say.

(My kid checked Asian since that would be obvious during the interview AND, she did not want to attend a school that considered her race to be a negative admissions factor.)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There's no multiracial box? And is the last name a giveaway for ethnicity?

NP here and most Indian names have been shortened and can pass for white.

Most Indian names don’t pass for white.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Don't game, be.

Seriously, let your kid fill out the application, and check what they want to say.

(My kid checked Asian since that would be obvious during the interview AND, she did not want to attend a school that considered her race to be a negative admissions factor.)

My kid checked white (Indian/white) because he looks white

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There's no multiracial box? And is the last name a giveaway for ethnicity?

NP here and most Indian names have been shortened and can pass for white.

Most Indian names don’t pass for white.

Sure they do when they’re shortened.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Don't game, be.

Seriously, let your kid fill out the application, and check what they want to say.

(My kid checked Asian since that would be obvious during the interview AND, she did not want to attend a school that considered her race to be a negative admissions factor.)

It just is a negative factor at selective schools, regardless of what she wants.

- Asian here

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:no - it won't. but don't worry, you can be like the other parents on this forum and blame it on that afterwards.

+1000