<p>Don’t think so, because Universities like too say: “We got students from X countries” and Vietnam doesn’t count as China.</p>
<p>But I also think that they look forward to have a balanced mixtures of American, European and Asian students.</p>
<p>One question. Does is help or hurt you if you associate yourself with an ethnic group in the application?</p>
<p>I don’t think Vietnam = China in the eyes of colleges (at least I would hope not), but the sheer number of ridiculously smart Vietnamese scholars applying each year makes their pool very competitive too.</p>
<p>AFAIK ethnic groups only matter for US citizens/PRs where in general being AA/Hispanic helps and being Asian(-American) hurts. But I doubt it helps/hurts beyond country of citizenship/origin for internationals.</p>
<p>phyz, I doubt it matters because they use it to represent % of each race/ethnicity represented in the college for residents. It doesn’t apply to internationals, who are listed as a separate %, unless you are of dual citizenship (U.S. and other).</p>