<p>Hello guys. This is my first post after my friend in LA told me about this website at New Year’s with the mandatory, “OMG YOU DIDN’T KNOW ABOUT COLLEGE CONFIDENTIAL?”</p>
<p>I’ve taken in a lot of information that is now irrelevant to me as I am a senior in my high school. I go to a Canadian instuition and Texas Tech was a sort of last-minute decision on my part. My friend that attends TT has given me a virtual tour via photos and FaceTime, and it looks like a school that I am seriously interested in applying to. And here are where I cannot find any answers (then again I have terrible answer-seeking skills).</p>
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<li><p>I’m from Vancouver, BC, Canada. I’m Asian and there’s a huge Asian community here. Though considered a “minority,” this is not actually the case and I do not get any benefits whatsoever. From what I can gather, Texas is a very Caucasian heavy state - will I face and discrimination, and / or benefit as a result of being a minority? Or will this put me at a DISadvantage?</p></li>
<li><p>When’s the darn deadline? I’ve been last-minute applying to UCLA, UC: Irvine, USC, NYU, and now Texas Tech on top of seven schools in Canada and the UK. I vaguely remember a January 4th, 2012 deadline, but on the ApplyTexas.org it says the deadline is April 1st?!?!?!</p></li>
<li><p>Related to the previous question, does this mean that the university will give out admissions based on a first-come, first-serve sort of basis, or will admissions results be released after April 1st? That’s when most schools release their admission results… I can’t imagine that Texas Tech will start going through their applicant pool on the 1st of April. </p></li>
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<p>I’m sorry if I sound noobish and lazy. I’m sure that this kind of information is readily avaliable on the college websites as well as this one, perhaps. The only reason why I’m throwing a wild punch in the dark here is because I’m on a really tight time schedule. Applying to three countries, meeting requirements for all three, and keeping my GPA up is a hard task!</p>
<p>I’d appreciate any help whatsoever. Thanks a lot in advance, gents and ladies. :D</p>