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Anonymous wrote:
Question: My children are part Asian, part white European. They have a passport from my European country as well as their American passport, since they were born in the US. They have very little cultural connection to their Asian heritage, have never been exposed to the language, but they DO have an Asian last name, because their father is Asian. First names are from their European country, we speak the language at home, have friends from that country, visit the home country often - the cultural connection is there. They will also take the AP in that European language, which will be really easy for them.

Do they check the Asian box?
Do they expand, in one of their essays, on their European identity?
What else can they do to ward off discrimination against Asians?

Thank you.

You guys are nuts. My kids are part asian and we always checked the box. It is what it is. They are both at Ivys. And if they they didn’t get into top schools, that would be fine too

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Question: My children are part Asian, part white European. They have a passport from my European country as well as their American passport, since they were born in the US. They have very little cultural connection to their Asian heritage, have never been exposed to the language, but they DO have an Asian last name, because their father is Asian. First names are from their European country, we speak the language at home, have friends from that country, visit the home country often - the cultural connection is there. They will also take the AP in that European language, which will be really easy for them.

Do they check the Asian box?
Do they expand, in one of their essays, on their European identity?
What else can they do to ward off discrimination against Asians?

Thank you.

Yes, they need to check the Asian box. With the last name, they can't hide their Asian heritage (I am Asian and have experienced this).

Given that, they should own their situation - they should write in their essays about the full scope of their life experience, which includes the European identity, e.g., time spent in Europe, language, etc. If they can present themselves as "citizens of the world", they will present better. In fact, having the dual passports will allow the school to claim them as international students and help with diversity. The goal should be to shift the comparison to international and "third culture" applicants rather than typical Asian-Americans (I also lived in Asia for many years and sent my kids to American schools with many such students).

All of this will help ward off discrimination against Asians in the admissions process. Unfortunately, can't help with the other anti-Asian BS that is going on these days.

Isn't that a different admissions process, with more expensive tuition?

Anonymous wrote:PP. I absolutely will stop commenting. You do not know me or how I feel. I am absolutely not “disgruntled.”

The original point was that people of all races play instruments and tennis. It’s not “quirky” for white kids. I was pushing back on that assumption.

I think that made me consider how many racist posts (or posts putting down other races or complaining about URMs) I see on DCUM by self described Asian posters and some comments I’ve personally heard. I don’t mean to offend, just trying to make people think about their biases. I really do try to consider mine often.

Anonymous wrote:
Question: My children are part Asian, part white European. They have a passport from my European country as well as their American passport, since they were born in the US. They have very little cultural connection to their Asian heritage, have never been exposed to the language, but they DO have an Asian last name, because their father is Asian. First names are from their European country, we speak the language at home, have friends from that country, visit the home country often - the cultural connection is there. They will also take the AP in that European language, which will be really easy for them.

Do they check the Asian box?
Do they expand, in one of their essays, on their European identity?
What else can they do to ward off discrimination against Asians?

Thank you.

Anonymous wrote:OP, my kids are white/Vietnamese, just normal UMC good-but-not-extraordinary students with normal ECs. When applying to college (2016, 2018, this year) they checked both Asian and white, and it didn't seem to hurt them, even at UCLA.

Anonymous wrote:Doesn't multi-race not help anyone? I am not sure how this is calculated.

Don't people here know that Asian is -400 on SAT scores and White gets only subtracting 200 at top schools? I thought this was quite common knowledge but it's not. But I do not know what score "other" gets.

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This stereotype of Asians as the rote academic machines who only excel at math and science is so bizarre considering that art and music schools across the country are filled to the brim with Asian Americans. Asians excel at creative disciplines, but you sure don't hear that stereotype too often, do you?

Yes, you do. My kid wouldn't even participate in a string instrument because they said to be accepted you had to be east asian (not east asian, not south asian)

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This stereotype of Asians as the rote academic machines who only excel at math and science is so bizarre considering that art and music schools across the country are filled to the brim with Asian Americans. Asians excel at creative disciplines, but you sure don't hear that stereotype too often, do you?

Anonymous wrote:For some reason, playing a musical instrument and playing sports like Tennis is actually a net negative for Asian students. As is doing well in Math.