So I'm Asian, and a couple of days ago I read an article where this one family paid someone $100,000 for college advising. She subsequently buried everything that was "stereotypically Asian" at the bottom of her activities list and app in general and got into Harvard.
I was planning on writing my Brown community supplement on being Asian, but after that I am worried I shouldn't. My only other option is writing about my art class (or sexuality, but I doubt anyone, including me, wants to read about me saying "I don't know!" for 100 words), which obviously isn't as substantial. Usually minorities have an advantage in the college admissions when they talk about race issues, but Asians usually don't, even though I do believe I have quite a lot to say about it.
Does anyone have any advice for how I should go about this?
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