hook at Harvard vs. Yale

rhandco
Thu, 23 Jul 2015 14:04:03 +0000

I don’t think you get “double” for being a black Hispanic, just as a white Hispanic doesn’t cancel out the Hispanic “bump”.

There are more than enough qualified URM at the Ivies that it wouldn’t be that much of a hook - look at the generic “average SAT bump” articles to get an idea, and only use that as a guide.

Go to each college’s admissions page and they should have statistics on who applies and who is accepted by race.

Here is Harvard’s admitted students profile:
https://college.harvard.edu/admissions/admissions-statistics

If you look at a site like this:
http://www.collegedata.com/cs/data/college/college_pg01_tmpl.jhtml?schoolId=444

you can find Multi-racial (not Hispanic or Latino) as a category, so you likely would fall only under Hispanic.

The “bump” is usually so little that you had better be pretty darn close to bother to apply at all. I have interviewed many URM and non-URM for my Ivy alma mater, and the only students who have gotten in were Asians; no URMs were admitted. Do not overestimate “how badly” the top schools want diversity (just as Asian students shouldn’t overestimate the impact of their race).