does belonging to a minority group help you

matrixsurgeon
Sat, 28 Dec 2013 12:20:36 +0000

@carbon111

first of all, religion doesn’t matter at all in terms of college admissions (i dont think it can be anyways), second of all, being indian or of indian origin does not necessarily give you benefit because Asians overall are overrepresented (as per percentage difference in population and in colleges top) most top schools have over 15-20% Asian/pacific islander populations so I dont think that beign asian helps you at all. Some say that it hurts you but no one knows for sure. But the final thing is that NO you dont get special consideration/advantage for beign Indian/asian.