Anonymous wrote:

PaleoConPrep wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes, the colleges add points to scores of URM. It's a bit of an insult but that's how it is.

I know what you mean when the URMs in my office are passed over for promotion. It's a bit of an insult but that's how it is.

Maybe because they don't deserve one.

Oh damn. You again?

There goes the neighborhood!

PaleoConPrep wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes, the colleges add points to scores of URM. It's a bit of an insult but that's how it is.

I know what you mean when the URMs in my office are passed over for promotion. It's a bit of an insult but that's how it is.

Maybe because they don't deserve one.

Oh damn. You again?

My friend's daughter was told (when she did not get into an Ivy) that she got less of a admissions boost because she was born in the USA and because she went to Moco schools. "not much of a hardship" is what she was told. Also, since her brother was in college she did not get the 1st person to attend college boost.

But she did get into some lower than Ivy schools with lots of FA/grants.

But she had a 4.3 and was a NMSF.

So....

How do you not know if you are Hispanic or not? Like I knew from the time I was little--like a kid! We ate Mexican and Puerto Rican food (cause that is the background of my parents), my Mom watched novelas, we are catholic--complete with ghosts and demons, family came first (always!). I remember Ricky Martin when he was in Menudo! I don't get these threads. Are white people really so freaked out at what they view as a zero sum game for college admissions because they think Latinos and other minorities are taking white people spots?

This is a personal family question of raising your children with a certain identity and culture--you can be white, brown, or black and be Latino. It is all about your home culture!

Anonymous wrote:Please help a mother out. Her Father is hispanic so she's half. Is this helpful to her on applications? If so, why?

From the analysis I've seen, it helps a little, but not nearly as much as being black.

https://www.nas.org/images/documents/report_affirmative_action_at_three_universities.pdf

From the report: "Chart 5 shows the odds ratios for admission of minority applicants as compared to white applicants with similar academic and residential qualifications. The odds ratios are derived from a logistic regression analysis which controls for SAT/LSAT scores, gpa, and, for UVA and NCS, residence. As such, the odds ratios compare the odds of admission among equally- qualified applicants.
The odds ratio for blacks compared to whites at NCS is 13 to 1, but at UVA it is 106 to 1 and at William &Mary 267 to 1. In other words, at UVA the odds of a black student being admitted is more than 100 times the odds of admission of a white student with the same qualifications. The odds of admitting a black applicant at William & Mary is more than 250 times the odds of admitting an equally-qualified white applicant.
The odds ratios for Asians at all three schools are less than one, meaning that Asians are less likely to be admitted than equally-qualified whites (the odds ratio for Asians at UVA is not statistically significant). The odds ratios for Hispanics are 2.8 and 1.9 at UVA and NCS, respectively, but less than one at W&M."

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes, the colleges add points to scores of URM. It's a bit of an insult but that's how it is.

I know what you mean when the URMs in my office are passed over for promotion. It's a bit of an insult but that's how it is.

Maybe because they don't deserve one.

Yes. Hispanics are the a new victim class. ( blacks, Hispanics, and LGBT are all part of this privileged group)I'm sure they're happy about getting stuff they don't deserve.

Anonymous wrote:Yes, the colleges add points to scores of URM. It's a bit of an insult but that's how it is.

I know what you mean when the URMs in my office are passed over for promotion. It's a bit of an insult but that's how it is.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What's with all these posts lately?

College application time.

I don't think so. What is this? The 2nd or 3rd one with the same subject matter?

Yes, the colleges add points to scores of URM. It's a bit of an insult but that's how it is.

Our DC is half Hispanic half white. Mentioned to husband (born in SA) about marking DC as Latino, but he didn't like the idea.
Saw DH had checked "white" in some other application-toddlers passport or SS card.
I'd let the kid decide what he is on college application when time comes. He speaks Spanish as his first language, but also English and Finnish.
I'd say English will take over finally since we live here.

Anonymous wrote:What's with all these posts lately?

College application time.

What's with all these posts lately?

Yes, very much so. B/c hispanics are considered URM, like blacks.

Please help a mother out. Her Father is hispanic so she's half. Is this helpful to her on applications? If so, why?