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...if you're biracial, and you indicate yourself as such, how does it help?

i'm specifically half-Black and half-Pakistani...and yeahyeahyeah i'm horrible but i wanna know if i can get some AA benefit for my half-Black side. i'm not unqualified! but every lil bit helps for HYB soooooooooooo yeah. will i get any benefit for my ethnic diversity?

By cookiecookie on Sunday, January 26, 2003 - 08:05 pm: Edit

you should, shouldn't you? because you are, after all, half AfAm and that's what they're after. Would they count you as full Black or full Asian i don't know

By la lo la on Sunday, January 26, 2003 - 08:09 pm: Edit

um ok...u say ur qualified...post ur stats then

By majorscount on Sunday, January 26, 2003 - 08:15 pm: Edit

i don't really want to post em. they're so long, and someone will tell me randomly to go to comm college.

but if ANYONE is that curious...go ahead, mail me at ingetalk@yahoo.com and i'll give you all my stats and gpa and sats everything...IF you promise to mail me back your evaluation of my getting into yale, brown, harvard, georgetown sfs, cornell, dartmouth, jhu. if you will, then great, mail me and i'll give you my stats.

but what of my biraciality? PLZ ANSWER

By Tim (Tim) on Sunday, January 26, 2003 - 09:25 pm: Edit

Mark down Black if you want AA benefits, Asian if you want the harder chance of getting in but the knowledge you got in without AA.

Tim

By tanzania on Sunday, January 26, 2003 - 09:54 pm: Edit

Uh, Tim? Pakistani isn't an Asian heritage!

By Tim (Tim) on Sunday, January 26, 2003 - 10:07 pm: Edit

You're right actually, but I'm assuming a White/Black/Hispanic/Asian/Native American choice. I know some places allow Indian/Pakistani but some places don't have that.

Tim

By majorscount on Sunday, January 26, 2003 - 10:34 pm: Edit

well for yale and such, they marked asian, specify, and in that list they have indian/pakistani.

anyway, i marked black and other, and under other i specified pakistani. i marked both. will it give me an edge?

By Ravi on Monday, January 27, 2003 - 12:38 am: Edit

Tanzania said that ‘Pakistani is not Asian heritage’ !!!!!!!!!
Then what is considered as Asian? Only ‘Mongolian’ origin. Then What is Indians , paks and Arabs considered as ???

By Tim (Tim) on Monday, January 27, 2003 - 06:08 pm: Edit

Ravi:

Under an old, discredited system there were three races: Caucasian, Negro, and Mongolian. Technically, Indians and Arabs were actually grouped as Caucasians, but popularly Indians were considered Asians. This system is hella discredited since it was just a ridiculous social construct, but a vestige of it remains whenever you see racial classifications of "White/Black/Asian/Hispanic/Native American."

Tim

By frou on Monday, January 27, 2003 - 10:36 pm: Edit

yes, yes, it is discredited.

for purposes of AA, however, is this true? I have heard that if you are 1/16 native american, you are evaluated in the context of being (or "counted as") native american. for everything else, it's one half to qualify. is that true?

By Rhonda on Thursday, January 30, 2003 - 01:48 pm: Edit

Tim -- you are correct about anthropological ethnic categories. however, i don't know of any college that uses them, although some will distinguish east asian (what used to be called "oriental") from south asian (indo/pak/sri lanka/bangladesh). Hispanics would fall into either caucasian or black. Middle easterners would also.

Frou -- there are generally no "cutoffs" for determining whether you qualify as a minority. the school will decide whether it wants to give you any preference they may accord for that group. For native american, specifically, the colleges usually require some proof of tribal affiliation (tribal membership). if you're not a tribal member, you're not going to get any preference as a native american. the apps ask if you are "enrolled," and if so which tribe, and based on my experience, some schools actually contact the tribe to check if you're registered.

By majorscount on Friday, January 31, 2003 - 02:09 am: Edit

Thanks guys.

But do any of you know if i'll get the AA benefit?

By rp327 on Friday, January 31, 2003 - 03:32 pm: Edit

it doesnt take a genius to figure out that you're better off than the whites!!!!!!
-but im white and going to yale, so it doesnt matter much to me anymore

By Tanya on Tuesday, February 18, 2003 - 06:05 am: Edit

The Indian subcontinent, the Arabian peninsula, the eastern half of the Turkish peninisula, and much of Russia are part of Asia for those who don't know their geography!Asia stretches from Israel and Turkey to Japan and Siberia. If you are from that huge area, you are asian. I'm a white Russian and technically I'm asian because I come from the Asian part of Russia.
"tanzania" is stupid. Pakistan is in Asia for your information.

By Armanixxx (Armanixxx) on Sunday, March 28, 2004 - 11:22 pm: Edit

Pakistanis are Asians. If you say Asian you tend to mean Pakistani,Indian,Sri Lankan and the 'brown folks' not yellow. Yellow is Oriental.
I am from the UK and on holidays in India....in both these countries as well as most countries i visited they think of India if u say Asia...

Japan,Korea,China is FAR EAST .....Iraq,Iran,Israel is MIDDLEAST

And yes technically speaking Asia covers all Asian countries starting with Russia and ending in Indonesia or somewhere near Australia but in everday life....Asian means someone from the Indian Subcontinent.