<p>In the context of college admissions, “minority” means “underrepresented minority”, which is in turn influenced by the perception of which ethnic groups have undergone institutionalized hardships. That’s why asian is not considered a minority in college admissions. They make up only about 5% of the US population, but they seem to be doing fine economically. You hear a lot of noise about the institutionalized hardships of blacks, hispanics, and native americans, not so much about arabs. This doesn’t mean that arabs haven’t undergone historical economic hardship and repression, only that people don’t really tend to focus on it too much. But regardless, it doesn’t matter since race itself is not directly an admissions factor at UCLA. That’s against the law in fact.</p>
<p>I do go to UCLA. And I actually have access to some information regarding admissions that other people do not (though I won’t say how). Obviously though, I still know much less about the admissions process than the admissions department itself. </p>
<p>I completely understand why anyone would want to be chanced, to get peace of mind. But even when current UCLA students do respond, you’ll often see them arguing or disagreeing, because, really, it’s all just guessing. So when UCLA students can’t even agree on a case, how can a non-student, who has not had the opportunity to learn of a wide array of admits with a wide array of statistics and all those special cases that UCLA is chock full of, possibly be able to make an informed guess? UCLA does not use a points system. Statistics and averages are but one part of the holistic system.</p>
<p>I have absolutely no problem with you chancing other people. It just makes no sense to me.</p>