American Indian Status

Sblast
Sat, 25 Mar 2023 20:13:57 +0000

Hi, American Indian appears to be the most unrepresented minority by far on college campuses. My daughter, a hs junior, is a member of a tribe with the registration number and paperwork to prove it.

At least on the common app, when you click the American Indian box, a screen pops up that requires you to enter tribe name and registration number before continuing. There is no measuring of blood or family history. You either have the registration number or you don’t.

That written, she’s not involved with the tribal community to any significant extent and certainly won’t spin anything to prove otherwise. Most people would not have a clue she’s legitimately American Indian.

My question is what kind of admission advantage, if any, might she receive as someone with this background but very little cultural interaction with it?

Not really wanting to fully play chance her at this point but she has an unweighted gpa of 4.0, attends a competitive private school, lives in far South Texas, lots of good AP, SAT 1440 (taking ACT next month), she’ll get through highest calculus offered at the end of the year, full year internship with a major city newspaper, lots of volunteer stuff, doing a program at Barnard this summer. Her school doesn’t rank except to tell UT and A&M who its auto admits are.

PREFFERED MAJOR: Cognitive Science

Likely:
U. Of Indiana
U. Of Washington

Target:
U. Of Richmond
Wake Forest
UCSD
UT-Austin, tricky with top 6% auto. Only 3-4 in her class will get auto admission but many more get offered admission at some point
Davidson

Reach:
Barnard
NYU
Emory
Vanderbilt
UCLA
UC-Berkeley
UCSB
Stanford
Northwestern
UVA
Wellesley
Penn
Rice
Boston College
Tufts

Blessed in that cost is not an issue.

Thank you for any comments.