<p>I’ve never seen any statistics on this, and that’s the only thing I’d believe.</p>
<p>i don’t know about stats but i read this article one time on it.
i’m not sure either, thats why I wanted to know…</p>
<p>I’m just saying, you’re likely to get lots of “opinions”, but that’s all it is, not data.</p>
<p>oh ok, i just wanted to confirm that its not true or something…
that would suck if it was :(</p>
<p>What ORMs have to do no matter which one they are, is to really look different from the stereotype of their ethnic group. Whether it’s affluent white girls who ride horses, travel and attend expensive summer programs or an Indian who is on every math/science team and does Indian dancing in their spare time.</p>
<p>I’m part of a refugee family from Poland. My dad’s side of the family is ethnically Tatar. Tatars are a tiny minority in Poland (less than 3000) and most are Muslim. I’ve never even met another in the United States. What do you think?</p>
<p>How exactly do schools go about giving URM status to a particular group/ethnicity?</p>
<p>hmmmm… well its definetely not going to hurt you lol… I think that colleges just divide it into the broad categories of white, hispanic, asian, black, native american, and other. So I suppose you would go into other, which doesn’t really give you a boost or status as URM. But obviously if you spin your heritage in an essay well, then its a boost definetley. you should call your prospective colleges to make sure, i guess</p>
<p>I think URM depends on the school. I mean if the school is like 20% black and 2% hispanic, Blacks wouldnt be considered minority there where was Hispanic students would. Speaking of which, are there any historically Hispanic schools?</p>
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<p>The federal categories are not so detailed. You are always welcome NOT to check off any of the boxes on an ethnic identification form. If you did check off boxes, it sounds like you might choose to check off both “white” and “Asian.” I would write about this in college application essays and see if the college admission officers find the Tatar heritage unusual, or not. It’s very hard to predict whether this aspect of your background is particularly helpful to your chances, but it is at least interesting, so you should probably mention it. </p>
<p>Good luck in your applications.</p>
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<p>There are no reliable data on this issue. The federal categories don’t distinguish among different kinds of “Asian” applicants, so it would be hard even to gather data on this issue without either </p>
<p>a) an independent researcher being granted access to college admission files at various colleges, as has happened occasionally, </p>
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<p>b) litigation by an applicant who alleges discriminatory treatment. </p>
<p>What I have to say about the general issue is said in the first post in this FAQ thread: </p>
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<p>Good luck in your applications. Remember that it is the law that you can decline to self-identify by any ethnic group, and that colleges admit MANY applicants each year who are reported to the federal government as “race/ethnicity unknown.”</p>
<p>I kind have to self-identify because I’m a permanent resident, so they’ll know I’m a citizen of India anyway.</p>
<p>That raises an interesting question (which has come up before in this thread) about how reasonable an inference about someone’s ethnicity is from knowing someone’s citizenship. </p>
<p>Anyway, I’m sure the law on the issue is that a United States permanent resident (who would be asked the ethnicity question, as an international student is not) is permitted to decline to answer the ethnicity question. And the very large number of students reported to the federal government by some colleges as "[race/ethnicity</a> unknown](<a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/1061012037-post4.html]race/ethnicity">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/1061012037-post4.html)" very likely include permanent residents as well as citizens. </p>
<p>Good luck in your applications.</p>
<p>Practically all the Ivys and then the top 50-top 75 list is at least 50% White.</p>
<p>Damn.</p>
<p>because America - until like 2030 anyway - is at least 50% white.</p>
<p>Because the U.S. is ~70% white.</p>
<p>The United States is well over 50% (I believe it may even be 70+%) white. Top colleges are more diverse than the country as a whole…</p>
<p>As everyone has already said, most of the U.S. is in fact white, so naturally universities are going to have a large percent of white people.</p>
<p>They aren’t. At California Berkeley and at UCLA caucasians comprise less than 50% of the undergraduate population.</p>
<p>Go to inner city high schools and see the attitude of students, that may answer your question</p>
<p>Wow thats just a little bit racist</p>