<p>Now that there has been topic drift in this thread, it’s time to point to the main FAQ thread on “race” in college admission: </p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-admissions/651345-race-college-admissions-faq-discussion-3-a.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-admissions/651345-race-college-admissions-faq-discussion-3-a.html</a> </p>
<p>It would be quite an ignorant assumption to assume that just because someone is a Muslim, that person is also middle Eastern. The majority of Muslims are not middle Eastern, and a plurality of them would be classified as “Asian” by the current federal ethnic definitions. (Middle Eastern people are classified as “white,” by the long-standing federal definitions.)</p>