Race in Admissions

Applying to College
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<p>It's been said many times that pertaining to certain racial groups could either harm or improve one's chances of admission to college. What I'm asking is, essentially, which races help and which hurt?</p>

<p>Obviously I'm not going to lie on my application, but it could potentially be more helpful to not report my race rather than report one that I know will prejudice my chances. It seems that chances are improved for all minority races except Asian, but does that mean chances are prejudiced by reporting as pertaining to White? What about religion? Do applications ask for the applicant's religion, and if so, are people of minority religions (Judaism, Islam, Buddhism) given preference over people of one of the larger religious groups, such as Catholicism and Protestantism?</p>

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<p>Religion isn't taken into account at all. Though I think if they're going to do affirmative action for races, they should do it for religions too. Though you can change your religion but not your race... I don't know. Jewish or Islamic people can be discriminated against for having Jewish- or Islamic-sounding last names. I don't know of any particularly Buddhist last names. :)</p>

<p>I'm white, personally, and I put down my race.</p>

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<p>So, putting down "White" is better than leaving it blank?</p>