Some questions for asian/pacific islander applicant

Applying to College
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  1. How badly do top universities discriminate against asians and favor blacks and hispanics?
  2. Would they penalize an mixed asian/pacific islander applicant like me?
  3. I took Ap world in 9th got a 4 without studying, Ap hug and ap us history in 10th and got both 5s, I'm currently taking 8 aps in my junior year, literature, calculus ab, government, macroeconomics, physics, psychology, european history, and capstone and I can handle it. Do I look bad to colleges if I take this many Aps?
  4. How many should I take senior year to get into prestigious universities? I'm trying to major in political science or PPE (Philosophy, Politics, Economics)
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  1. All things being equal, URMs enjoy an admissions advantage where not prohibited by state law.
  2. Assuming you are defining PI accurately, mixed PI is considered URM.
  3. You are taking 8 AP classes? If you can handle them, more power to you. If you've not met the college's foreign language recommendation, they will be less impressed with jamming in APs. If any are self-studied, colleges are unimpressed with that.
  4. Nobody here knows your HS offerings. You need to maintain rigor, but you also don't need more than 6-8 APs in total.
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Colleges and universities select students based on what they need to build a class comprising of students with different attributes; the selection criteria are not based solely on GPA, test scores, number of APs completed…etc, and these processes should not be characterized as “discriminat[ion] against a[sic]sians and favor b[sic]lacks and h[sic]ispanics”. You will definitely look bad to colleges, especially the “top universities”, such as HYPSM and Oxford, if you continue to harbour these negative and incorrect views, which will find their ways into your application essays, supplements and interviews.

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  1. How big is URM advantage?
  2. My high school offers 28 in total. Is it fine if I take 2 or 3 aps my senior year. Would it look bad compared to my junior year?
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  1. If you are a Black male applying to a T20 with strong stats, it's huge. But you're not, so file under "it is what it is." It's less dramatic for Black females or Hispanics. The data for Native Americans/Native Alaskans/Pacific Islanders is likely to small to yield statistically significant results. The exact numbers vary by college and are, for this most pary, not publicly available.
  2. They will view your total transcript. No AO will count APs by year.
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I’m afraid my number of ap classes are too much even for a top 10 school and will look douchey. Across 9th, 10th, and 11th grades, I will take 11 aps and one sat subject math 2. If they don’t count Aps by year, can I just take no APs my senior year?

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Sure. If the non-AP courses are like multivariable calculus, organic chem, Shakespeare’s tragedies. No, if the courses are oceanography, accounting, yearbook.

Bailing out of year 2 of Capstone won’t do you any favors though.

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Oops I didn’t mean bailing out of 2 year of capstone