<p>College admissions can be kinda lame…</p>
<p>eh. <em>shrugs</em> It’s a mystery that no one can quite figure out. There are kids that get into Harvard and Princeton, but get rejected from Yale, and vice versa. I guess most we can do is do our best and cross our fingers! :)</p>
<p>You said it right. Hopefully, I can join you up in Hanover in 2010, but we’ll see how the decisions work out. First I really gotta get my SATs up. In March I barely broke 2100, but with a low reading score…Hopefully I improve a bit</p>
<p>I ALWAYS wonder about the “check race” box. I REALLY think it should be eliminated. What is to stop ANYONE from checking ANY box. Let’s say, other than honesty, which I HOPE which is what is driving us all, one has NO indication of American Indian heritage and they check that box. Who can say? Who can prove? What percentage? I mean…WHO CARES! Family lore says we have Cherokee…I’d be about the 1/16th the earlier poster mentioned…making my daughter 1/32nd. Who is to stop me? OBVIOUSLY we wouldn’t. But… you KNOW there is no percentage or proof “rule” by which to abide. What if President Obama wants to check caucasian. He is not “black”. He is not “white”. He is not even “Predominantly” one or the other. So let’s say he checks “white” and is admitted. When he matriculates…is a dorm RA going to see him and say “Hey, dude…you’re supposed to be white and you don’t look like it…I’m gonna report this”. You know? I mean this whole thing is just SO irrelevant. Same thing about gender - gonna make a trans-gendered person lift up his/her skirt/pants? Even THEN! The arguments just go on and on. It’s CRAZY for this day and age. Race Schmace. We’re all a little bit of this and some more of that. It’s ALL good. And it should NOT matter a whit.</p>
<p>R124687: our family is white/NA. When my sister applied to colleges, she marked the NA box. Many schools sent follow-up letters asking for more information, such as whether my sister was on an offical tribal roll, etc. Some applications even ask for more information up front. Most schools don’t just allow someone to check the box. They want proof. </p>
<p>As I mentioned on this thread earlier, the notion that someome feels a certain ethnicity seems ludicrous to me. I feel how I feel. I honestly don’t know what it means when I hear someone ask, “So which race do you identify more with?” I identify with me. That’s all I know. How is a white person to feel? How is a NA person supposed to feel? I also am baffled when I read that colleges what a “dynamic mix” of students and then decided that choosing people by their skin tone will result in that dynamic mix. To me it’s all a bunch of superficial crap designed to do nothing more than convince adcoms that they are hip, progressive, etc.</p>
<p>It is a bunch of bull. On the bright side, I think I have improved my chances at admissions a bit. I moved my score from low 2100s to a 2230 in June. I’ll take it once more in October, and hopefully I’ll break 2300 (My highest reading section is still only 640).</p>