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<p>I do think you bring up an interesting point. While I do agree with - and often cite / link to - David’s post, I do think that his point here: </p>
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<p>was perhaps a little oversimplified. Certainly, there may be students who have a certain ambivalence about their racial or ethnic identity, and that internal conflict may manifest in any number of interesting and different ways. </p>
<p>The point David was trying to get at, though, was that because we allow you to check multiple boxes, we also allow students to outline the contours of their racial and ethnic identity, and then to fill inside the lines in the essays which constitute the balance of the application. So for a student like your child, he can check whichever boxes might describe him, and then elaborate upon how he conceptualizes his own identity in the essays.</p>