But if those Asians at USC were raised in Korean households with Korean traditions, such as Tiggerdad’s son, it wouldn’t be the same as the Asian kids like my daughter who was raised in a white household that was no more Asian than the Italian family next door.
When we moved to Southern California, she did not want to go to a high school that was majority Asian because their sports teams sucked and it didn’t even have her sport… The school she ended up did have a larger than average (or at least that she was used to) Asian population. She came home one day and was telling me about a boy in her class. “He’s Korean. Even his parents are. Even his grandmother. The whole family!” She was shocked.
My daughter doesn’t care about race and wasn’t looking to marry a Chinese guy so it wasn’t important to her to pick as school that would increase her possibilities of even meeting a potential spouse. To Tiggerdad’s son, that’s important. To many of the Jewish families on CC, it’s important so they have a few threads about Jewish life on campus. It’s important to my friend and she looked for a school with a large Jewish population for her son. Didn’t work.
The OP wants the advantage of the URM, but with that advantage comes a disadvantage of not having as many of his/her peeps at the school.