<p>Is it better to put "Caucasian" or "Prefer not to state"</p>
<p>Would the adcoms be like "is he trying to hide something from us by trying to be strategic?" </p>
<p>or would caucasian help me a little bit. because at my school, the top achievers are usually asian or indian. </p>
<p>thoughts?</p>
<p>I think (and I have nothing to back this up so if someone provides a supported opinion, listen to them) that "prefer not to state" is probably treated as "caucasian" to the adcoms.</p>
<p>its weird because many of the adcoms are caucasian, so I don't think they would hold it against somebody. </p>
<p>is there any box that hurts your chances more than cuacasian?</p>
<p>Asian does :) But I don't think "prefer not to state" they assume you're caucasian, I think it carries the same weight though.</p>
<p>If anything, "prefer not to stay" may be treated as a sign of
low self-confidence.</p>
<p>"Prefer not to state" won't hurt you, but then again, marking Caucasian technically doesn't hurt you either. It just doesn't give you any preference in admissions - only the Hispanic/African-American/etc. boxes will help.</p>
<p>I hate it when there aren't multiple boxes, because 'other' to me is == multiracial...</p>