Race on college admissions
While I was messing around with the chancing profile on college vine, I noticed that when I changed my race from asian to black, my chances for top schools like Harvard and Yale went from about 1-3% to 40-50‰. I found this quite shocking and was wondering if this is realistic for college applications. Will being asian really be lower my chances of admission by that much?!
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It depends entirely on whether you fit the “Asian stem stereotype”. I’m not saying they have quotas but schools are looking for a worldwide representation and Asian especially Chinese and Indian are one of the most common applicants as the stereotype about Asians and education exists. But with that said your chances are likely a bit higher say 5-8% while whites in your case have a 25-30%. But yes Your race does impact it but it is more along the lines of being a non cliche applicant.
(not so much SE Asia, Central Asia, and Middle East. Japanese and Korean have no boost but also no decreased chances all of this is my experience though)
Hope this helps and if you have a question I’ll be happy to answer it.
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Also sudenote I messed with my profile too and at Michigan my chances went from mid to upper tens as a white male all the way up to low to mid 80% as a black male.