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I'm not sure I understand your questions, on a couple of levels ...
- Having kids abroad? Like, give birth abroad and continue to raise them outside the US?
- When you say school, do you mean colleges in the US? I don't think I've ever heard or read about public K-12 schools who discriminate against Asians. The admission is all based on zip codes and school boundaries.
If you're worried about college, it's more than 18 years from right now. A lot can change in that time.
No discrimination in VA atleast. I am half Asian. Go to US states that are diverse. VA, CA, Seattle, NY, NJ, TX. But if you haven't had kids yet, thats still another 18 years away. Lets hope society changes by then
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Asian scores for college admissions are generally higher as a group. So that means Asians as a group are doing very well in K-12 but may have challenges getting into the best of the best schools for college. Those schools are already challenging though with 3% acceptance rates. If your kid is smart they will get into a good school in the top 50 which sets them up for a good life.
Not sure I understand the question but I’ll take a stab at it.
Affirmative action in school is disadvantageous against Asians, yes. Even during K-12, programs or specials schools that used to accept students based on merit alone are now all switching to different acceptance criteria. Methods vary, but cities typically want more black/hispanic students in these programs.
Since Asians excel disproportionally on academic merits, this will obviously displace Asian students the most.
I think technically you would tick the box ‘mixed’ if they asked about race and you would want to disclose.
Im in the same type of couple and this was our plan. Also use the white last name, though the guy is white anyway, to head any of this off
Huh?
Have them use your last name
Asian Americans are 3x population weight represented (20-25% vs ~7%) in most top schools and more in some (MIT, Caltech, California schools). Average scores may be higher for Asians but it’s a little hard to say we are discriminated against. And there’s a lot of great schools in America to choose from.
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BCG1 you should not compare to overall population but against the numbers that apply. You can’t blame the schools for not admitting people that don’t apply. Compared to applications (and applications that have good enough grades) Asians are admitted less than you’d expect. As we all know, Harvard used a sort of character/leadership rating to mark them down as their scores and extra-curricular are so good.
I don't think the child's name helps nor hurts you in getting into colleges since you tick the boxes on race and they can use that as a part of the decision making process.
I am confused about the abroad part. Are you talking about college or childhood school?
Grade school/high school this will not matter unless maybe you’re looking at super competitive private schools/magnet schools.
You can always give them your last name. I’m white; my husband is Asian. We did not give them my last name but considered it; may change it later if we think prudent for college. I do not think from this perspective hyphenating is any “better” than just the Asian name. You’re basically talking about trying to hide being Asian from admissions.
The most important element will still be the kids own capabilities/test scores/etc.
Maybe there’s a checkbox for “other” on the race field. Or maybe just use “white”, that should still be some advantage over asian.
They’ll be fine.
You have very little if anything to worry about
I am Asian, I thought it is easier to get into good college as an Asians 🤔
Statistically it’s easier because more Asians tend to exhibit very high level academic performance to meet requirement, but in practice it’s much harder because the system is trying to divide their candidates by race. I guess they see it like dividing fighters by weight class because bigger people naturally have an advantage in a fight.
Correctly if I am wrong but I don’t think there has ever been any scientific evidence to prove that Asians are genetically more intelligent than other races. If that is the case I can understand why Asians should be held to a higher standard than everyone else (you wouldn’t hold a duck to the same standards as a human when it comes to math). I think many of them just work harder, though i could be wrong.