<p>w00t youll NEVER link my xanga to the rest of my life. i say what im thinking on CC, but im a little more politically correct in real life. and now i know who philntex is too! ha HA</p>
<p>he was just trying to ask how someone can say theyre half a religion, when the person wasnt referring to the religion, but rather the ancestry. the hebrew people, if you will.</p>
<p>so THAT’s who you are! Ha! And so we cross paths for the first time on CC…</p>
<p>Come to Princeton, dangit! You were keeping the chat hoppin’ last night. Do the same at P-Unit, man.</p>
<p>50% of minority applicants weren’t admitted, but rather 42%, which is nevertheless astonishing, given the 2003 Census estimates of roughly 80.5% of the population being white. That means that Princeton admitted over 215% of the general demographic!!!</p>
<p>i wanna be brown - I wasn’t referring to people who are biracial because they really do get half of their genes from one parent of one race and half from a parent of another race (and people define races by being genetically related).</p>
<p>Read what anonymous (anonymou5?) said. I was referring to being half of one religion, which is not genetically based, but rather derives its meaning from practices, belief, and faith. </p>
<p>Haha, and I’m a ‘she,’ not a ‘he.’ That’s what I get for choosing a gender-ambigous name.</p>
<p>oops sorry. they just force you to use such a masculine font on CC.</p>
<p>Yeah, this font is rather masculine. I much prefer Optima.</p>
<p>I cant stand people who demean the efforts of minority students who are admitted to top colleges like Princeton by saying the only reason the minority student was admitted is in fact because he or she is an URM. That is such a horrible thing to say. Not all URMs get into these top schools, as Hispanics in the top 10 of my high school would certainly prove. As a Hispanic student admitted to Princeton, I believe I was admitted not because I’m Hispanic (which, btw, is not a race–I know people who say they’re white even if they were born in a spanish-speaking country) but because of the competitive nature of my application which was just as good as those of ORMs and white applicants. </p>
<p>White, non-legacy students are not being “screwed” over. Look at the stats, they are the largest represented single population in all top school campuses. If you complain, its only because you’re insecure of your own competitiveness. Work harder (sorry if I sound insensitive, I’m just tired of posts like these). </p>
<p>–David–</p>
<p>so if they consider themselves white, why do they need special treatment? thats all.</p>
<p>Hey the group that gets screwed the most are Asian internationals. Last year, not a single applicant from mainland China was accepted - and you cannot have me believe that a nation with 1.3 billion people cannot produce a few students acceptable to Princeton the year of the highest admissions rate in 4 years.</p>
<p>there is a quota for internationals, i believe. you compete in a separate pool i think that is devoid of this race-based affirmative action problem.</p>
<p>and yes the international rate is lower than domestic. but it makes sense that american universities should make american students their first priority, as the universities in other nations do. so, ur not screwed because you have outstanding Chinese universities to apply to.</p>
<p>Though Princeton doesn’t admit it, there probably is a quota. Nevertheless, only the absolute best apply to American schools (especially top ones like Princeton - a revealing statistic for Northwestern, the only one I could find, was that SAT scores for international admits (who are not eligible for financial aid) was significantly higher than for American admits) so the international pool tend to be more competitive. What’s more, Asians again are overrepresnted in the international pool so we come second fiddle to Africans, Europeans, South Americans, etc. </p>
<p>And the annoying thing is, the entry standards for internationals at Beijing, Tsinghua and the like is lower than for local applicants!</p>
<p>That said, though I’m not Chinese I am an Asian international and was admitted ED, so I count myself very, very lucky.</p>
<p>congrats! the entry standards make sense. im not sure i know of alot of americans that apply to chinese universities, but the demand for internationals to come to american universities is incredible (despite the slight drop in recent years to european schools).</p>
<p>I agree with you David.
And I am as white as they come - even had an ancestor sign the US Declaration of Independence…</p>