<p>So, if you leave ethnicity blank, are you just assumed to be a non-URM? At MIT and also other schools, do adcoms try to figure out your race from your name, parents' country of origin, and other biographical info?</p>
<p>Check out this thread that an MIT admission officer posted: <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/massachusetts-institute-technology/981313-how-should-you-report-your-race-ethnicity.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/massachusetts-institute-technology/981313-how-should-you-report-your-race-ethnicity.html</a></p>
<p>Also, look at this blog entry posted on mitadmissions.org: [MIT</a> Admissions | Blog Entry: “Should I include my ethnicity on the MIT Application?”](<a href=“http://www.mitadmissions.org/topics/apply/affirmative_action/should_i_include_my_ethnicity.shtml]MIT”>http://www.mitadmissions.org/topics/apply/affirmative_action/should_i_include_my_ethnicity.shtml)</p>
<p>Those links would probably better answer your question</p>