Princeton: Students who do not identify their race

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<p>I posted this question in this thread: <a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-admissions/1228264-race-college-admission-faq-discussion-9-a.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-admissions/1228264-race-college-admission-faq-discussion-9-a.html&lt;/a>
But no one responded to my question. I'm still curious, so I'll ask here:

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What is the national percentage of students who do not specify race in their college application? I figure this should be easily Google-able, but I was unsuccessful in my attempts.</p>

<p>I was looking at HYP stats: Harvard has 11% unspecified, Yale has 9%, and Princeton has 3%. I would imagine these three schools to have very similar applicant pools, so I wonder if Princeton views unspecified race negatively when admitting students.

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Opinions?</p>

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<p>That would be rather foolish don’t you think? What purpose would it serve Princeton? I think it’s a statistical anomaly or a mistake, frankly.</p>

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<p>Well not completely foolish - I have a feeling that the majority of those who don’t specify their race are either Asian or white. It doesn’t seem terribly unlikely that a college seeking to balance its class ethnically would look negatively on someone who doesn’t specify their ethnicity.</p>

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<p>I prefer not to identify my religion or my ethnicity. However, just from my town I’m sure they can tell my ethnicity pretty quickly!</p>

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<p>Really? Wow, that’s interesting. I don’t really understand that, lexieam, but maybe because our community is so multi-racial.</p>

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<p>My town is 95% - 97% white … it’s actually a little strange!</p>

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<p>Whoa. You’re definitely not from California. :-)</p>