Do you really have to list your ethnicity?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>With all the hub-bub on how race affects your chances ( and it sucks to admit that it does play a role ), especially to the higher tier colleges like HYPS, I was wondering whether you have to identify your ethnicity where it asks, or if you can simply say other. This especially applies to asians. This is because if you list Asian, then, adcoms immediately have in their mindset the structural framework for a typical asian student, and if you don't live up to it, then you're chances are gonna be a bit hampered.</p>

<p>After all, my belief is that it shouldn't matter whether you're James Oglethorpe the fourteenth, or Tae-Kwoon Park, or Ezekiel Morales. If you are an intelligent young student who has a passion for your intended major, you should be considered the same as anyone else. </p>

<p>Point is, one might as well put other on the admissions form when it asks for ethnicity.</p>

<p>Whaddya guys think?</p>

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<p>Do it. I think listing ethnicity is optional anyway. I'm probably listing Caucasian- Kurdish and if I can't specify there I'll just do Other-Kurdish.</p>

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<p>I pretty much have to, given my middle name. You can't really hide your ethnicity unless your name is very american inside and out, like if your name is Bob Jones or Jane Doe.</p>

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<p>Wait, do it meaning list your ethnicity, or meaning list other?</p>

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<p>stanford does not judge based on race</p>

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<p>I thought listing ethnicity is always optional. It is optional on the Common App. I always either left it blank or marked the "decline to state" box, on Stanford's application.</p>