<p>For a variety of reasons, I don't want to tell colleges if I'm burgundy, magenta, or forest green with ominious polka dots. Does it affect the way adcoms treat an application? Are you treated as a URM (get a boost on st. tests/grades), a caucasian person (no avg. change on st. tests/grades) or an ORM (a substraction on st. tests/grades)?</p>
<p>Are you serious? Yes, they'll assume you're a URM and give you a major boost!!!!</p>
<p>Are you serious? ^^^ Why would they automatically think that?</p>
<p>suze was being sarcastic. They can pretty much tell from your name, so it really doesn't matter.</p>
<p>WHY do they insist on finding out our race when we clearly put we don't want to state it. Doesn't that defeat the whole purpose of that choice?</p>
<p>They can also tell from your picture.</p>
<p>"suze was being sarcastic"</p>
<p>I can never tell on the internet. </p>
<p>I'm thinking about not putting my race as well...</p>
<p>i dont really care...im giving it to them. why not? im already their slave...</p>
<p>As I wrote on another thread, IMO private colleges have a right to create the balance they want. If you're offended by that, choose a state school in a state where they can't consider race.</p>
<p>suze- thanks for your witty banter. It's nice that private colleges want to create a balance (in your opinion).....but you didn't answer the question. In response to your sarcasm, I was merely pointing out the general/various ways colleges treat applicants of different race-and how/if they would apply those same various treatments to applicants with unreported race.</p>
<p>So anyone.....how how colleges look at/treat/regard applicants who do not report their race during the admissions process? Is it more difficult to get in that way, etc.?</p>
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They can pretty much tell from your name, so it really doesn't matter.
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Not necessarily. I'm Asian, but you wouldn't be able to tell from my last name.</p>
<p>.-_-.</p>
<p>They will assume you are an illegal alien from Asia and auto-reject you.</p>
<p>I'm asian too, you can't really tell from my name but you can tell from both my parents' name, the language box on the app, and my extracurriculars. So yeah, there's no way to hide it. Plus, for Penn, they want a picture, so it'd be pretty obvious.</p>
<p>Sorry for the sarcasm, but if you're smart enough to apply to top schools, you're smart enough to know they wouldn't possibly treat you as a URM if you're not identified as one. Who wants to hide their race? Asians first, whites second.</p>
<p>True einnoc, I think it's often the 800 on the SATII Chinese/Korean that gives it away!</p>