Is it harder to get into UVA if you’re Asian?

[Anonymous]

Yes. Don’t check the box if you can avoid it!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It is harder to get into almost every university if you're Asian. Gotta have better grades and test scores than everyone else.

Even that’s not good enough anymore really.

You can have great stats, but with ‘holistic’ admission practices they can still decide that you don’t ‘fit’ their criteria based on nothing concrete.

Yes, the holistic admission is neither rule-based nor transparent.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Probably, as it is at basically every college institution 🙄.

Not true. Many small LAC's in rural areas struggle for diversity and will try hard to recruit your asian child (as they did mine).

The more elite the school, the more difficult the admission...but that is true by definition.

I feel this board obsessed a bit on this topic. Your DC is whatever race they are. There have been and will continue to be pros and cons to that fact. Move on from it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Probably, as it is at basically every college institution 🙄.

Not true. Many small LAC's in rural areas struggle for diversity and will try hard to recruit your asian child (as they did mine).

The more elite the school, the more difficult the admission...but that is true by definition.

I feel this board obsessed a bit on this topic. Your DC is whatever race they are. There have been and will continue to be pros and cons to that fact. Move on from it.

This. When it comes to college admissions or anything else in life, be practical. If you can get away with not checking the box, don't. Colleges typically can figure out who you are anyways based on parents' names, their birthplace (if first gen), etc.

My Asian DC had no issues getting into a few top state schools including UVA. Likely not going there.

If you feel you were not given a fair shot because of your race, pay it back. Educate your DC on the unfairness of the situation. Teach them to network among their own and take care of their own. For example, when it comes to hiring, hire an Asian over everyone else because they were not given a fair shot with college admissions. That's what the Whites did for the longest time BTW.

[Anonymous]

Shit it's hard to get in anywhere if you're Asian. Just look at the SAT score breakdown by race at top schools. Some of that info has been made public in the wake of the Harvard lawsuit. Asians 50+ points higher than whites, whites 150+ higher than "URMs."