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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My son is Asian. Has dual citizenship and possibly a third citizenship to come.

He's no braniac - more of an athlete trying to use his sport to get him into good schools (He has a 3.91 UW GPA with about 8 APs but his test scores will likely be low)

Is he going to have trouble getting into schools because he doesn't test as high as most Asians?

We are hoping the coach who recruits him will help nudge him over the finish line a bit but it seems like coaches and admissions officers see an Asian kid and assume they will have a 1600 SAT and I'm not sure they will accept my child who does not.[/quote]

Citizenship doesn’t matter unless you’re full pay and actually international and coming from an international home address.

Recruited athlete or on the bubble of recruited athlete (like talking to coach but coach can’t give him a likely letter or one of the team’s slots) is good if he is going for Ivy or NESCAC…or a D3 school in general. That takes him out of the general Asian male pile and puts him into the male athlete pile. Then the game changes. Unless his sport is squash or tennis, the male athlete pile will be not very Asian and he will stand out more. He needs to be on top of his recruiting conversations and cannot take his foot off the gas![/quote]

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