<p>I’ve heard, although I don’t have a source for this, that Native Americans are actually overrepresented on some college campuses, including some elite ones. How? Said college ends up with a 1.0% or whatever American Indian student body, while American Indians actually make up only [url=<a href=“http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/00000.html]0.9%[/url”>http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/00000.html]0.9%[/url</a>] of the country’s population. </p>
<p>Even if that’s not true, it will and can not, like every other single factor on your application, make you a shoo-in. There is no one factor that can make that happen, even winning a Nobel or Medal of Honor at age 18. If you do either of those but still have a 1200/2400 SAT, it’s not going to happen. Likewise with every racial status out there: it can help. People can disagree about how much it will help. But it will never turn a “definite no” into a “yes.”</p>