Asian Male: any preference?

djlmom
Sat, 08 Mar 2008 08:42:34 +0000

Does Wake give some sort of admission preference for an asian male born in the US? Statistically, my son appears to be on the bubble because he does not test that well, but his academic record, recs, ECs, etc will be right on the money.

When my older son considered applying to an ivy, we were told that he would have been disadvantaged because of the extremely high representation of asians at the school already (20+%). He ulitmately only applied to and is attending Wesleyan which is extremely diverse. Wake appears to have a proportionately low asian population (or much other racial diversity, for that matter).

The lack of racial diversity does not concern him…in fact, he has commented that he wants to go to a college with “less asians” because he has had to work so hard to keep up with his very studious asian classmates in high school! somewhat disappointing to hear as a parent, but very self aware on his part!

We are also considering Richmond too.

Thanks for any insight.