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

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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.

If a name is white enough it passes for African American. What's your objective?

This. Why not just check the “Black” box, and claim your kid is a light skinned black person?

Because that would be lying, Lori.

OP’s kid is White and Asian. He can identify honestly as either.

No clue what the “Indian name” poster is talking about.

[Anonymous]

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

What were the schools where it seemed advantageous to put Asian?

[Anonymous]

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

What were the schools where it seemed advantageous to put Asian?

🤣 I would say low ranking schools with majors that Asians don’t want to pursue like music or arts. I don’t think it’s advantageous being an Asian in this county.

[Anonymous]

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

What were the schools where it seemed advantageous to put Asian?

NP, but rural SLA colleges that struggle to achieve diversity really courted my Asian child to improve their statistics.

[Anonymous]

I work for a uni and def not.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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

What were the schools where it seemed advantageous to put Asian?

🤣 I would say low ranking schools with majors that Asians don’t want to pursue like music or arts. I don’t think it’s advantageous being an Asian in this county.

+1

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Anonymous wrote:I work for a uni and def not.

Hey, PP "I work for a uni," your repeated postings along these lines are not really as useful as I think you mean them to be. You obviously are not from the U.S., and it's not even clear that you are talking about working for a U.S. institution (since no actual U.S. person refers to a college that way), and there is no reason to think based on the fact that you "work for a uni" gives you even the slightest insight into U.S. college admissions and their related weighing of various ethnic backgrounds.

[Anonymous]

You can say you are Black on the application. Who would dispute it?

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Anonymous wrote:I work for a uni and def not.

Uni??????????????????????????

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You can say you are Black on the application. Who would dispute it?

Enough to get thrown out of the school and denied a diploma.

[Anonymous]

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

What were the schools where it seemed advantageous to put Asian?

LAC's. I know Asian students that get into Williams and Amherst but got rejected from most top 25 privates.

[Anonymous]

Relax and stop trying to figure out the best angle for gaining admission. If your kid is smart and works hard, they're going to have the same opportunities regardless of where they go to college. Check this out for data that support this....

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[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Asians are OVERREPRESENTED at Harvard by 4x. Despite what Asian parents want us to think, AOs are not discriminating against them. The real problem is that many/most of the high-scoring Asians want to go to the same small set of schools and major in the same subjects (engineering and CS).

I disagree and have been proven correct by race-blind admissions to other top schools, namely the California Universities. Merit alone without race has given Berkeley and UCLA student populations over 60%. Look at race-blind test only high schools like Sty and Bronx Science at 75% Asian. Merit alone would have Harvard at 80% Asian.

UCLA is about 30% Asian. https://www.collegefactual.com/colleges/university-of-california-los-angeles/student-life/diversity/

Berkeley is roughly 40% Asian. https://opa.berkeley.edu/campus-data/uc-berkeley-quick-facts

How does that translate to “over 60%”?

[Anonymous]

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

I don’t understand.

Are you under some delusion they would fact discrimination? If anything, Asians are over-represented at competitive colleges and universities.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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

What were the schools where it seemed advantageous to put Asian?

LAC's. I know Asian students that get into Williams and Amherst but got rejected from most top 25 privates.

You can look at the Common Data Set for each college and see where any race is URM, and it will benefit those.