"Race" in College Admissions FAQ & Discussion 4

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I am born in American but my parents were born in Pakistan

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<p>You are Asian by the federal definitions. </p>

<p>[Black</a> or African American persons, percent, 2000](<a href=“http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/meta/long_68176.htm]Black”>http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/meta/long_68176.htm) </p>

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@United States Census

Asian. A person having origins in any of the original peoples of the Far East, Southeast Asia, or the Indian subcontinent including, for example, Cambodia, China, India, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Pakistan, the Philippine Islands, Thailand, and Vietnam. It includes “Asian Indian,” “Chinese,” “Filipino,” “Korean,” “Japanese,” “Vietnamese,” and “Other Asian.”

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<p>Good luck in your applications. </p>

<p>Of course you and all other applicants have the right under federal law to not mark any ethnicity, if you so choose.</p>