<p>Even if you are not black or Asian, and are simply Caucasian, can it increase ir decrease your odds if you originate from a specific place?</p>
<p>Well, nationality does matter, but only up to a certain extent…
A good question indeed…</p>
<p>I’m pretty sure that the race doesn’t matter for internationals. One reason why colleges try to admit many URMs is that they want to brag about their diversity, etc. However, for these statistics are only US citizens (and greencard holder probably) considered, so if a college says it has admitted 100 black students, the 10 international students from Nigeria and Ghana aren’t included in this number.</p>
<p>I think nationality does matter to a certain extent, because colleges want diversity. The numbers of countries represented in a student body is also a factor for “diversity”, therefore, if you’re from a country where seldom people apply you could have better chances than someone from India for example. However, Princeton says in its viewbook that it doesn’t consider the citizenship of an applicant… don’t know…</p>
<p>At many colleges’ websites you can find a statement like “our student body represents 49 states and 52 countries”.
To be honest, I am sure nationality does matter. E.g. last year Wellesley accepted only 1 out of more than 50 Chinese applicants. It also struck me that I wasn’t accepted at Smith which awards about 60-80 scholarships to internationals but that I got one from Bryn Mawr which only gives 10-15 fin aid packages to intls each year. For me the answer is that Smith currently does enroll other German students but Bryn Mawr does not (they make those statistics available online)</p>